Traditional Chinese Medicine/Gao Ben

Chinese lovage root, ligusticum root

(Chinese name: 藁本)

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

Channels:
 * Foot Tai Yang of Urinary Bladder

Actions & Indications:
 * disperse Wind-Cold (Warm & Spicy)
 * Expel Wind-Cold-Damp
 * Stop headache
 * Jue Yin headache (vertex)

Contraindications:
 * Qi & Yin deficiency causing excessive sweating
 * Blood/Yin deficiency, because it's drying

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

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

Similar Actions to:
 * ../Qiang Huo/ - specialist Tai Yang headache; upper body Wind-Damp Bi pain
 * ../Bai Zhi/ - specialist Yang Ming headache, toothache, nasal congestion

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