Herb Listings
Tian Ma / Gastrodia Rhizome | |||
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Taste: Sweet • Temperature: Neutral • Category: Extinguish Wind • Sub Category: | |||
Dosage3-9g, or 0.9-1.5g as powder |
Actions1. Calms the Liver, extinguishes wind, & controls spasms & tremors: a very important herb for treating internal movement of Liver wind, whether caused by heat or cold. Used for headache, dizziness, childhood convulsions, epilepsy, tonic-clonic spasms, opisthotonos, tetany, & wind-stroke. Depending on the other herbs in the prescription, can be used for problems due to either heat or blood deficiency.2. Extinguishes wind & alleviates pain: for headaches, dizziness, & migraine headaches that occur with wind-phlegm patterns. Also used for wind-stroke with hemoplegia, dizziness, & numbness in the extremities. 3. Disperses painful obstruction: for wind-damp painful obstruction with pain & numbness of the lower back & extremities. |
MeridiansLiver |
CautionsToxicity: Experiments with animals have shown serious side effects. Vanillyl alcohol is much less toxic. |