Traditional Chinese Medicine/Bai Zhi
Bai-White
Zhi-Root of medicinal plant
(Chinese name:白芷)
Angelica root
Latin Name: Radix Angelicae Dahuricae [1]
Taste & Temperature:
Channels:
- Hand Tai Yin of Lung
- Foot Yang Ming of Stomach
Actions & Indications:
- disperse Wind-Cold (Warm & Spicy)
- Expel Wind-Cold-Damp
- stop headache
- Yang Ming headache (frontal)
- reduce swelling & expel pus
- expel Damp & alleviate discharge
- open nasal orifices
Contraindications:
- Qi & Yin deficiency causing excessive sweating
- Blood/Yin deficiency, because it's very drying
- burst sore, draining pus
Caution:
- Yin syndrome
- Blood deficiency
- chronic skin infection
Antagonize:
- Xuan Fu Hua
Dosage:
- 1-3 qian (3-9 grams)
Similar actions to:
- Qiang Huo - Tai Yang, vertex & occipital headaches; upper body Wind-Damp Bi pain
- Gao Ben - Tai Yang, vertex & occipital headaches
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Notes
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Xuguang Zheng, Xiaowei Zhang, Xiaona Sheng, Zhifang Yuan, Wei Yang, Qiao Wang, Lantong Zhang. "Simultaneous characterization and quantitation of 11 coumarins in Radix Angelicae Dahuricae by high performance liquid chromatography with electrospray tandem mass spectrometry", Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Volume 51, Issue 3, 5 February 2010, Pages 599-605