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Pin Yin: gao ben
Common name: Chinese lovage root
Botanical family: Umbelliferae
Botanical name: 1, Ligusticum sinensis; 2, L. jeholense Nakai et Kitag.
Primary action: Release Wind Cold
Secondary actions:
Dispel Wind Dampness
Temperature: warm
Taste: acrid
Entering Channel: UB
Actions:
Disperses Wind, Cold, and Dampness.
Relieves Wind Cold headache, lower backache and abdominal pain with diarrhea.
Relieves pain of Cold Damp hernia.
(See
Exterior Wind ;
Exterior Cold ;
Exterior Dampness ;
Liver Channel Cold Stagnation
.)
Indications: headache, toothache, abdominal pain
Dosage:
1-3 qian.
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