Dahurian Angenica Root (bai zhi)
Properties: The herb is pungent in flavour, warm in nature and acts on the lung and stomach channels. Pungent, warm and aromatic for dispersion, the herb is good at dispersing pathogenic wind-cold from the lung channel, and particularly good at removing pathogenic wind-dampness from the Yangming Channel to relieve pain effectively. Therefore, it is an important herb to treat headache due to wind-cold, Yangming headache and headache with rhinorrhea of turbid discharge.
Effects: Expelling wind, dispelling exopathogens, clearing passages, relieving pain, removing dampness, arresting leukorrhea, eliminating swelling, and draining pus.
Indication:
1. To treat exterior syndromes affected by pathogenic wind-cold, headache and nasal obstruction, it is often used in combination with ledebouriella root, notopterygium root and other herbs, such as Jiuwei Qianhuo Decoction.
2. To treat Yangming hendache belonging to wind-cold due to exopathogens with pain in the forehead as the main symptom, the drug is often used in combination with chuanxiong rhizome, ledebouriella root and other herbs for expelling wind, dispersing cold and relieving pain.
3. To treat headache with rhinorrhea of turbid discharge, nasal obstruction and distending pain in the forehead, the herb is used in combination with xanthium and magnolia flower, such as Cangerzi Powder.
In addition, it is often used to treat women's leukorrhagia, swelling pain of sore and carbuncle, and other syndromes.
Dosage and Administration: 3-10g.
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