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Any of a number of methods of treatment using mainly acrid dispersing wind-coursing medicinals to treat external wind invading the channels, the flesh, the sinew and bone, and joints. It includes: coursing wind and relieving pain to treat headache or dizziness due to wind invading the head; coursing wind and relieving itching, and clearing heat and eliminating dampness to treat itching, wind papules, or eczema due to wind-heat or wind-damp becoming depressed in the skin and spreading through the blood vessels; dispelling wind and transforming phlegm to treat deviated eyes and mouth due to wind evil with phlegm obstructing the channels network vessels of the face and head; dispelling wind and checking tetany to treat lockjaw arising when wind evil toxic qi invades through a wound; dispelling wind and eliminating dampness, quickening the blood and freeing the network vessels to treat numbness of the extremities with inhibited bending and stretching due wind, phlegm-damp, and static blood obstructing the network vessels. The main medicinals used as notopterygium (Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix, 羌活 qiāng huó), pubescent angelica (Angelicae Pubescentis Radix, 独活 dú huó), saposhnikovia (Saposhnikoviae Radix, 防风 fáng fēng), Dahurian angelica (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix, 白芷 bái zhǐ), schizonepeta (Schizonepetae Herba, 荆芥 jīng jiè), and chuanxiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma, 川芎 chuān xiōng). See coursing wind.

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