Tian Ma
Name: Gastrodia Elata Rhizome (天麻)
Pinyin: Tian Ma
Pharm. Name: Rhizoma Gastrodiae
Properties:
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Taste |
Characteristics |
Organs |
Dosage |
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Sweet |
Extinguish wind and stop spasm, pacify liver yang, dispel wind, and unblock collateral. |
Liver, Pericardium |
3-10g 0.9-1.5g (Powder) |
Description:
Being sweet, moist, and mild and with good mild action of extinguishing wind and stopping spasm, it can be combined with herbs to treat stirring of liver wind, fright epilepsy, and convulsions caused by kinds of reasons with heat or cold, deficiency or excess syndrome. It is the key herb to treat dizziness and headache because it can extinguish liver wind and pacify liver yang. It is combined with herbs to treat kinds of dizziness and headache. For dizziness and headache due to hyperactivity of liver yang, it is often combined with heat-clearing and liver-pacifying herbs. For wind attack on meridians with symptoms such as paralysis and numbness of limbs, it is often combined with qi-nourishing and blood-nourishing and blood-activating and collateral-unblocking herbs.