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)

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