Medicinals
yù jīn / 郁金 / 郁金 / curcuma [root]
Latin pharmacognostic name: Curcumae Radix
Alternate English names:
Alternate Chinese names:
Origin: Plant
Use: medicinal
Category: Blood-Quickening Stasis-dispelling agents / Blood-quickening pain-relieving agents
Properties: Acrid, bitter; cold.
Channel entry: liver, gallbladder, and heart channels.
Indications:
- Quickens the blood and relieves pain, moves qì and resolves depression: Pain due to qì stagnation and blood stasis.
- Clears the heart and downbears phlegm: Phlegm turbidity or phlegm-heat clouding the orifices of the heart, manifesting in mania and withdrawal, or epilepsy.
- Cools the blood and downbears qì: Frenetic movement of hot blood causing vomiting of blood (blood ejection), nosebleed, inverted menstruation (nosebleed during menstruation), bloody urine, or blood strangury.
- Disinhibits the gallbladder and abates jaundice: Damp-heat jaundice.
Dosage & Method:
Oral: 4.5–9g in decoctions; use in pills and powders.
Warning:
Contraindicated in pregnancy.
Quality:
The best tubers are hard and yellowish on the inside.
Product Area:
Curcuma longa: Sìchuān. Curcuma aromatica: Zhèjiāng.
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