Traditional Chinese Medicine/Fang Feng

Meaning of Name:

Fang-Guard Against

Feng-Wind

English Name:

• Saposhnikovia root
• Ledebouriella root

Chinese Name:

• 防风 (Pinyin: fáng fēng)

Latin Name:

• Radix Ledebouriellae Divaricatae

Taste & Temperature:

• Xin-Spicy
• Gan-Sweet
• slightly Wen-Warm

Channels (all foot channels b/c root?)

• Foot Tai Yang of Urinary Bladder
• Foot Jue Yin of Liver
• Foot Tai Yin of Spleen

Actions & Indications:

• Disperse Wind-Cold (Warm & Spicy)
• Expel Wind-Cold-Damp
• expel Wind-Damp, stop pain
• stop spasm
• used for migraine headache
• Expel Wind-Cold or Wind-Heat

Contraindications:

• Qi or Yin deficiency causing excessive sweating
• spasm due to Blood deficiency
• Yin deficiency with Heat

Caution:

• Yin syndrome
• Blood deficiency
• chronic skin infection

Antagonize:

• Gan Jiang
• Li lu

Counteract:

• Bei Xie

Dosage:

• 1-3 qian (3-9 grams)

Friend:

• Jing Jie - used together often

Similar Actions To:

• Zi Su Ye - specialist, disperse Cold
• Jing Jie - specialist, any Wind

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• Xin Wen Jie Biao
• TCM Materia Medica