Yu Jin
Name: Curcuma Root (鬱金)
Pinyin: Yu Jin
Pharm. Name: Radix Curcumae
Properties:
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Taste |
Characteristics |
Organs |
Dosage |
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Acrid |
Activate blood and alleviate pain, move qi and relieve depression, clear heat, and cool blood, promote excretion of bile, and remove jaundice. |
Heart |
3-15g |
Description:
The root tuber of the perennial herbaceous plant “Curcuma Wenyujin”. This herb can both activate blood and dispel stasis to alleviate pain and soothe the liver and move qi to relieve depression. It is indicated for chest and hypochondria pain due to qi stagnation and blood stasis, chest and heart emergent pain, unbearable restlessness, and upset and sudden severe pain of epigastrium and abdomen. It can also cool blood and clear heart and is indicated for damp turbidity blocking heart orifice in damp-warm disease, unconsciousness, stuffiness, and oppression of chest and epigastrium, mania, and phlegm-fire blocking heart in epilepsy. Furthermore, it helps in curing Haematemesis, epistaxis, vicarious menstruation, hematuria, blood stranguria, Damp-heat jaundice, and gallbladder stones.