Category
Extinguish Wind & Stop Tremors
Pin Yin
Latin Name
Bombyx Batryticatus
English Name
Dosage
3-9g
Entering Channels
LU
Flavor
acrid
Temperature
neutral
Pregnancy
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Chinese Herbal Formulas (Comprehensive List)
Individual Essential Oils
Kampo Name
Kampo Number
Kanji
Katakana
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Key Characteristics:
- Eliminates wind
- Drains heat
- Transforms phlegm
- Disperses clumping
Cautions & Contraindications:
- None noted
Actions & Indications:
- Extinguishes wind and stops spasms and convulsions: for childhood convulsions or facial paralysis. Also used for seizures from either internal stirring of Liver wind or wind-phlegm-heat, especially the latter.
- Dispels wind, disperses wind-heat, and stops itching and pain: for headache, red eyes, and sore, swollen throat, as well as itching skin lesions such as wind rash, from either externally-contracted wind-heat or Liver wind. Also used for loss of voice.
- Transforms phlegm, softens what is hard, and dissipates nodules: for phlegm-heat scrofula and other phlegm nodules.
- Expels wind and stops itching: for itching skin lesions such as wind rash.
