Xiao Hui Xiang
Name: Fennel Seed (小茴香)
Pinyin: Xiao Hui Xiang
Pharm. Name: Foeniculi, Fructus
Properties:
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Taste |
Characteristics |
Organs |
Dosage |
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Acrid |
Dispel cold and alleviate pain, regulate qi, and harmonize the stomach. |
Liver, Kidney, Spleen, Stomach |
3-12g |
Description:
It is the essential herbs for hernia of cold type with abdominal pain because of its actions of warming kidney and liver, promoting qi flow to alleviate pain. For hernia due to congealing cold and qi stagnation, it can be stir-baked alone and wrapped in cloth for local iron or decocted with other qi-moving and cold-dispersing and pain-alleviating herbs. It has the actions of dispersing cold from liver meridian and promoting qi flow to alleviate pain and is indicated for abdominal cold pain due to cold in liver meridian or dysmenorrhea due to deficiency-cold of thoroughfare and conception vessels, qi stagnation, and blood stasis. It has the actions of warming middle energizer and alleviating pain, regulating spleen-stomach qi to increase appetite, and arrest vomiting.