Traditional Chinese Medicine/Fang Feng

Meaning of Name:

Fang-Guard Against

Feng-Wind

English Name:
 * Saposhnikovia root
 * Ledebouriella root

Chinese Name:
 * 防风 (Pinyin: fáng fēng)

Latin Name:
 * Radix Ledebouriellae Divaricatae

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

Channels (all foot channels b/c root?)
 * Foot Tai Yang of Urinary Bladder
 * Foot Jue Yin of Liver
 * Foot Tai Yin of Spleen

Actions & Indications:
 * Disperse Wind-Cold (Warm & Spicy)
 * Expel Wind-Cold-Damp
 * expel Wind-Damp, stop pain
 * stop spasm
 * used for migraine headache
 * Expel Wind-Cold or Wind-Heat

Contraindications:
 * Qi or Yin deficiency causing excessive sweating
 * spasm due to Blood deficiency
 * Yin deficiency with Heat

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

Antagonize:
 * Gan Jiang
 * Li lu

Counteract:
 * Bei Xie

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

Friend:
 * ../Jing Jie/ - used together often

Similar Actions To:
 * ../Zi Su Ye/ - specialist, disperse Cold
 * ../Jing Jie/ - specialist, any Wind

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