Cimicifuga Rhizome (sheng ma)
Properties: It is pungent and sweet in flavour, slightly cold in nature and acting on the lung, spleen and stomach channels. Pungent and cool for lifting and dispersing, and sweet and cool for clearing heat and removing toxic substances. It has a weak effect of dispelling exopathogens and a considerably strong effect of elevating Yang and promoting eruption. It is also good at clearing Yangming toxic heat. It is indicated for measles without smooth eruption, sinking of Qi in the middle Jiao, excessive heat in the stomach and other syndromes.
Effects: Inducing sweats to dispel exopathogens, promoting eruption, elevating Yang, lifting Qi, clearing heat and removing toxic.
Indication:
1. It can be used in combination with raw gypsum, dahurian angelica root and other drugs for clearing Yangming heat from the interior and dispersing pathogenic wind-heat from the exterior, to treat upward attack by wind-heat and Yangming headache; and with pueraria root, such as Shengma Gegen Decoction for elevating Yang and promoting eruption, to treat infantile measles without smooth eruption.
2. To treat sinking of Qi in the middle Jiao, lingering fiarrhea, proctoptosis and hysteroptosis, etc, it is used in combination with astragalus root and bupleurum root for invigorating Qi, elevating Yang, strengthening the middle Jiao and lifting Qi.
3. It can be used in combination with raw gypsum and coptis root for purging stomach-fire, sore throat, aphtha, toothache and headache; and with isatis leaf and raw sysum for clearing heat, purging fire, removing heat from blood and eliminating toxins, to treat febrile disease affected by exopathogens and exanthema maculosum.
Dosage and Administration: 3-10g.Used stir-baked with honey for elevating Yang and lifting Qi, and used unprepared for others.
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