Category
Extinguish Wind & Stop Tremors
Pin Yin
Latin Name
Gastrodiae Rhizoma
English Name
Dosage
3-9g
Entering Channels
LV
Flavor
sweet
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:
- Calms the Liver with gentle nourishment
- Extinguishes wind
Cautions & Contraindications:
- None
Actions & Indications:
- Calms the Liver, extinguishes wind, and controls spasms and tremors: a very important herb for treating internal stirring of Liver wind, whether caused by heat or cold. Used for headache, dizziness, childhood convulsions, epilepsy, tonic-clonic spasms, opisthotonos, tetany, and wind-stroke.
- Extinguishes wind and alleviates pain: for headaches, dizziness, and migrains headaches that occur with wind-phlegm patterns. Also used for wind-stroke with hemiplegia, dizziness, and numbness in the extremities. Can be used for both excessive and deficienct conditions.
- Disperses painful obstruction: for wind-damp bi with pain and numbness of the lower back and extremities.
