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Pin Yin: jianghuang
Common name: turmeric
Botanical family: Zingiberaceae
Botanical name: Curcuma longa L.
Primary action: Quicken Blood, Transform Stasis
Secondary actions:
Rectify Qi;
Dispel Wind Dampness
Temperature: warm
Taste: acrid, bitter
Entering Channel: Lv, Sp
Actions:
Quickens Blood and promotes mestruation; used for Stagnant Blood, especially
associated with Vacuity Cold, with chest or abdominal pain, amenorrhea
or dysmenorrhea, and for pain and swelling of traumatic injury.
Moves the Qi and relieves pain; used for Stagnant Qi with epigastric and
abdominal pain.
Expels Wind and moves Blood; used for Wind Damp Bi pain with Blood Stasis, especially of shoulders.
(See
Blood Stasis
;
Qi Stagnation
;
Stomach Qi Stagnation
;
Wind-Damp Bi
.)
Dosage:
1-3 qian.
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