Traditional Chinese Medicine/Bai Zhi

Bai-White

Zhi-Root of medicinal plant

(Chinese name:白芷)

Angelica root

Latin Name: Radix Angelicae Dahuricae

Taste & Temperature:
 * ../Xin-Spicy/
 * ../Wen-Warm/

Channels:
 * Hand Tai Yin of Lung
 * Foot Yang Ming of Stomach

Actions & Indications:
 * disperse Wind-Cold (Warm & Spicy)
 * Expel Wind-Cold-Damp
 * stop headache
 * Yang Ming headache (frontal)
 * reduce swelling & expel pus
 * expel Damp & alleviate discharge
 * open nasal orifices

Contraindications:
 * Qi & Yin deficiency causing excessive sweating
 * Blood/Yin deficiency, because it's very drying
 * burst sore, draining pus

Caution:
 * Yin syndrome
 * Blood deficiency
 * chronic skin infection

Antagonize:
 * Xuan Fu Hua

Dosage:
 * 1-3 qian (3-9 grams)

Similar actions to:
 * ../Qiang Huo/ - Tai Yang, vertex & occipital headaches; upper body Wind-Damp Bi pain
 * ../Gao Ben/ - Tai Yang, vertex & occipital headaches

back to:
 * ../TCM Materia Medica/
 * ../Xin Wen Jie Biao/