They can remove pathogenic wind-damp from the muscles, channels and collaterals, tendons and bones, and joints. Some of them also separately have the actions of relieving pain, relaxing and activating the tendons, invigorating the liver and kidney and strengthening tendons and bones. They are indicated for wind-damp Bi-syndrome, painful tendons and bones, stiffness of tendons and muscles, soreness and flaccidity of lumbus and knees, flaccidity and weakness of lower limbs, numbness or hemiplegia, etc..
Bi-syndrome is distinctive in overabundance of wind, damp, cold or heat, affected location or the course of disease, therefore, when they are used, they should be selected and combined with other relative medicinal herbs according to different symptoms and signs so as to achieve responding effects. If the syndromes are accompied with superficial syndrome, diaphoretics must be combined; if blood stasis is in the body, blood activating ones should be combined; if the wind and dampness are predominant, channels warming ones must be combined; if the heat is predominant, heat clearing ones must be combined; if the syndromes are with deficiency of qi and blood, qi and blood tonifying ones should be combined.
If Bi-syndrome lasts a long period, a formula pre-pared into medicinal wine or pill would be more suitable.
Duhuo Radix Angelicae Pubescentis
The source is from the root of Angelica pubescens Maxim. f. biserrata shan. et Yuan, family Umbelliferae. The medicinal material is mainly produced in Sichuan, Hubei, Anhui provinces, etc., dug and collected in the end of autumn and early stage of spring, dried in the sun, cut into pieces and the crude form is used.
Medicinal Properties Pungent and bitter in flavor, warm in nature and attributive to the liver and bladder meridians.
Actions Expel wind and dampness, stop pain of Bisyndrome and relieve exogenous pathogenic factors.
Application
1. It is used for Bi-syndrome of wind-cold-dampness type with pain, especially in the back and the lower half of the body with soreness and pain due to dampness. For general arthritis, it is combined with Qianghuo (Rhizoma et Radix Notopterygii ) and Qinjiao (Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae); for prolonged Bi-syndrome accompanied with insufficiency of the liver and kidney, and deficiency of qi and blood, combined with Sangjisheng (Ramulus Taxilli), Duzhong ( Cortex Eucommiae ) , Niuxi (Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae) and others that tonify the liver and kidney, such as Duhuo Jisheng Tang (Decoction).
2. For superficial syndrome of wind-cold type with dampness-syndrome, which is manifested as aversion to cold and fever, headache, general heavy sensation of body, sore and painful lumbus and legs, combined with Qianghuo ( Rhizoma et Radix Notopterygii ), Fangfeng (Radix Saposhnikoviae ) and Jingjie ( Herba Schizonepetae ) .
Usage and Dosage 3 - 10 g is used in decoction for oral use.
Explanation Duhuo (Radix Angelicae Pubescentis ) and Qianghuo ( Rhizoma et Radix Notopterygii) can all expel wind, dampness and cold, and relieve pain, treat rheumatic arthralgia with pain and superficial syndrome of wind-cold-damp type. But Qianghuo (Rhizoma et Radix Notopterygii) tends to treat superficial syndrome and has strong action of promoting sweating to expel cold, so it is often used to expel wind and dampness and treat Bi-syndrome of the upper part of the body; Duhuo (Radix Angelicae Pubescentis) has weaker action of eliminating exogenous pathogenic factors and works on the side of expeling wind and dampness, and of relieving pain of Bi-syndrome, so it is more on the side of treating pain of Bi-syndrome in the lower part of the body. Both Duhuo (Radix Angeticae Pubescentis ) and Qianghuo (Rhizoma et Radix Notopterygii) can combine together to treat general joint pain so that better effect will be achieved.
Weilingxian Radix Clematidis
The source is from the root and rhizome of the perennial trailing shrub, Clematis chinensis Osbeck. or C. hexapetala Pall. or C. manshurica Rupr., family Ranunculaceae. The medicinal material is mainly produced in Jiangsu, Anhui and Zhejiang provinces, etc., dug and collected in autumn, cleaned, dried in the sun and the crude one may be used.
Medicinal Properties Pungent and salty in flavor, warm in nature and attributive to the bladder meridian.
Actions Expel wind and dampness, dredge the channel and remove fishbone stuck in the throat.
Application
1. It is indicated for pain of Bi-syndrome of wind-dampness type, especially migratory Bi-syndrome due to preponderant wind, which is manifested as soreness and pains of general joints, tendons and bones which are wandering, it is powdered alone and then mixed with wine for being used or combined with Danggui ( Radix Angelicae Sinensis ) , Guizhi ( Ramulus Cinnamomi ), Fangfeng (Radix Saposhnikoviae ) , Chuanxiong (Rhizoma Chuanxiong), and Jianghuang ( Rhizoma Curcume Longae ), etc..
2. For fishbone stuck in the throat, its decoction to which sugar and vinegar is added is slowly swallowed in several times. The decoction is also taken orally to treat sore throat.
Usage and Dosage 5 ¨C 10g is used in decoction for oral use and 30-50 g for fishbone stuck in the throat.
