Traditional Chinese Medicine/Xi Xin

Xi-Slender

Xin-Spicy or hot in flavor

(Chinese: 细辛)

Asarum, Chinese Wild Ginger

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

Channels:
 * Hand Tai Yin of Lung (b/c Xin-Spicy?)
 * Foot Shao Yin of Kidney

Actions & Indications:
 * disperse Wind-Cold (Warm & Spicy)
 * Stop headache
 * Shao Yin headache (teeth/cold)
 * warm the Lung, transform Phlegm
 * very good analgesic
 * open nasal orifices

Contraindications:
 * Qi & Yin deficiency causing excessive sweating
 * profuse sweating due to Qi deficiency
 * headache due to Blood deficiency
 * cough due to Yin deficiency

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

Antagonize:
 * Shan Zhu Yu
 * Huang Qi

Counteract:
 * Hua Shi

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

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