What is the most effective traditional Chinese medicine for pain relief?

Painkillers are very common medicines in normal times. Painkillers are usually divided into Chinese medicine and Western medicine. Everyone knows that Western medicine painkillers have great side effects on the human body, but compared with Western medicine, Chinese medicine generally has relatively smaller side effects. However, most people do not have a special understanding of Chinese medicine painkillers, and do not know which type of Chinese medicine painkillers is more effective.

What is the most effective traditional Chinese medicine for pain relief?

Chuanxiong

Spicy and warm. Promote blood circulation and qi, dispel wind and relieve pain, remove blood stasis and unclog meridians. It can dilate blood vessels, improve microcirculation disorders, increase the number of open microcirculation blood vessels, and lower blood pressure, and has a synergistic effect with reserpine; it can inhibit platelet aggregation, inhibit thrombosis, inhibit thromboxane A2, and reduce fibrin stability; it has a sedative effect, relieves smooth muscle spasm, increases coronary blood flow, and has a cardiotonic effect, possibly through the excitement of cardiac β receptors; it can lower blood lipids, resist arteriosclerosis, resist radiation, and resist vitamin E deficiency. The usual dosage is 3-10g.

Turmeric

Curcuma is the dried tuberous root of Curcuma zedoaria, Curcuma longa, Curcuma guangxiensis or Curcuma zedoaria, which belong to the ginger family. The first two are commonly known as "warm turmeric" and "yellow silk turmeric" respectively, and the rest are commonly known as "Gui turmeric" or "green silk turmeric" according to their different properties. Promote blood circulation and relieve pain, promote qi circulation and relieve depression, clear the heart and cool blood, promote bile secretion and relieve jaundice. It is used for stabbing pain in the chest and flanks, chest obstruction and heart pain, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, breast pain, coma due to febrile disease, epilepsy, vomiting and bleeding due to blood heat, jaundice and red urine.

turmeric

Turmeric is the dried rhizome of the ginger family turmeric. Dig it up in winter when the stems and leaves wither, wash it, boil or steam it until it is thoroughly cooked, dry it in the sun, and remove the fibrous roots. It can promote blood circulation and qi movement, and relieve pain caused by dysmenorrhea. It is used for stabbing pain in the chest and flanks, chest obstruction and heart pain, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea, abdominal masses, rheumatic pain in the shoulders and arms, and swelling and pain from falls.

mastic

Frankincense, a Chinese medicine name. It is the resin that exudes from the bark of the frankincense tree and other plants of the same genus in the olive family. Promote blood circulation, relieve pain, reduce swelling and promote tissue regeneration. It is used for chest pain, heart pain, epigastric pain, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis, abdominal pain due to masses, rheumatic pain, tendon and vein spasm, traumatic injury, carbuncle and ulcer.

Wulingzhi

Wulingzhi, also known as medicine base, cold worm feces, and spirit fat, is divided into two types: spirit fat rice and spirit fat blocks (blood spirit fat, sugar spirit fat). Lingzhi rice is the dried feces of the flying squirrel, and Lingzhi blocks are a mixture of its feces and urine mixed with a small amount of sand and gravel that is dried and condensed. Wulingzhi is the dried feces of the flying squirrel, which can promote blood circulation and relieve blood stasis, and stop bleeding when fried into charcoal. It is used for pain caused by blood stasis in the heart and abdomen, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea caused by blood stasis, and abdominal pain caused by blood stasis after childbirth; roasted charcoal is used to treat metrorrhagia; it is used externally to treat bruises, snake and insect bites.

Maple Balsam

Liquidambar resin, a traditional Chinese medicine name. It is the dried resin of the Liquidambar formosana tree, a plant of the Hamamelidaceae family. Cut the trunk between July and August to allow the resin to flow out, harvest from October to April of the following year, and dry in the shade. Promote blood circulation and relieve pain, detoxify and promote tissue regeneration, cool blood and stop bleeding. Used for injuries from falls, swelling and pain from carbuncles, hematemesis, epistaxis, and bleeding from trauma.