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

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