Category
Aromatic Open Orifices
Pin Yin
Latin Name
Acori Tatarinowii Rhizoma
English Name
Dosage
3-9g
Entering Channels
HT
Flavor
acrid
Temperature
warm
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:
Cautions & Contraindications:
- Use with caution in cases of yin deficiency with heat signs, or where there is irritability and excessive sweating, vomiting blood, or spermatorrhea.
- Overdoseage or long-term use should be avoided.
Actions & Indications:
- Opens the orifices, dislodges phlegm, removes filth, and quiets the spirit: for phlegm-dampness veiling and blocking the sensory orifices with such symptoms as deafness, dizziness, forgetfulness, a dulled sensorium, as well as seizures or stupor.
- Transforms turbid dampness, awakens the Spleen, and promotes movement of qi: for such symptoms as chest and epigastric fullness and abdominal distention and pain due to dampness and turbidity obstructing the middle burner.
- Promotes blood flow and reduces swelling: used both internally and topically for wind-damp-cold painful obstruction, trauma, and sores.
