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Alternate English names: Chinese ligusticum [root]

Kingdom: Plant

Origin in PRC Pharmacopoeia: Ligusticum sinense Oliv.; Ligusticum jeholense Nakai et Kita. (PRC Pharmacopoeia)

Origin in unofficial sources: Ligusticum sinense Oliv.*; Ligusticum jeholense Nakai et Kitag.*; Ligusticum tenuissimum (Nakai) Kitag.; Angelica cartilagino-marginata (Mak.) Nakai; Conioselinum vaginatum (Spr.) Thell.; Ligusticum delavayi Franch.; Sium suave Walt.

Use: Medicinal

Category: Exterior-resolving agents / Warm acrid exterior-resolving agents

Properties: Acrid; warm.

Channel entry: Bladder channels.

Actions and indications:

• Effuses the exterior and disperses cold; relieves pain: Headache, in particular acute vertex headache, headache with pain stretching into the teeth, and hemilateral headache due to external contraction of wind-cold.
• Dispels wind-damp and relieves pain: Wind-cold; damp impediment with joint pain.

Dosage and method: Oral: 3–10g in decoctions.

Warnings: Contraindicated in blood vacuity headache and heat patterns.

Quality: The best quality is yellow in color, with a hollow core and has a clean shiny appearance.

Production area: Liáoníng, Shānxī, Shǎnxī (Shaanxi), Húběi, and Sìchuān.

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