What are the properties and flavors of Chuanxiong?

Chuanxiong is a very common Chinese medicine. Although this medicinal material is relatively common, its effects and functions are not small at all. This medicinal material is often used in medicine to treat rheumatic diseases, mainly by utilizing the blood-stasis-removing and analgesic effects of Chuanxiong. Of course, Chuanxiong has many functions. Below we will introduce to you the main functions of Chuanxiong. If you are injured and need treatment, you can follow the methods in the article for treatment.

Effects of Chuanxiong:

1. Used for chest and flank pain, rheumatic pain, mass agglomeration, sore swelling and pain, pain from falls and injuries, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis and pain, etc.

Chuanxiong is pungent, dispersing, warming and unblocking in nature, and has the function of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It has a wide range of effects and is suitable for various diseases caused by blood stasis, and is especially an important medicine for regulating menstruation in gynecology. For treating irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, and dysmenorrhea, it is often used together with Chinese angelica and other drugs; for treating chest and flank pain, it can be used together with Bupleurum, Cyperus rotundus, etc.; for treating rheumatic pain, it can be used together with Notopterygium and Angelica dahurica; for treating masses and lumps, it can be used together with Trillium and Curcuma; for treating sores, swelling and pain, and bruises, it can be used together with frankincense and myrrh, etc.

2. Used for cold headache, migraine headache, etc.

Chuanxiong is pungent and fragrant and good at ascending. It can go up to the top of the head and has the effect of dispelling wind and relieving pain. It is an important medicine for treating headaches caused by wind. It can be used together with asarum, angelica dahurica, etc., and can also be appropriately combined according to which meridian the headache belongs to. For headaches caused by wind evil, if you use Schizonepeta, Saposhnikovia, and Notopterygium wilfordii together, it can treat headaches caused by wind-cold colds; if you use them together with Chrysanthemum, Bombyx batryticatus, etc., it can treat headaches caused by wind-heat.

In addition, this product has been commonly used clinically in recent years to treat angina pectoris caused by coronary heart disease.

Among the 502 prescriptions collected, Chuanxiong was used in 48.8% of the cases, the most frequently used medicine. After proper combination, Chuanxiong can be used to treat headaches caused by external infection, internal injury, cold, heat, deficiency, excess and other reasons.

Since there is no unified classification standard for headaches in traditional Chinese medicine, the prescriptions for treating headaches are summarized according to their main characteristics.

The above article introduces some of the therapeutic effects and medicinal properties of Chuanxiong. Only after clearly understanding and mastering the characteristics of this traditional Chinese medicine, can we take the medicine for conditioning with greater confidence. Of course, although the side effects of Chinese medicine are smaller than those of Western medicine, the dosage also needs to be controlled, and the drug should not be abused. Therefore, before taking it for treatment, it needs to be taken according to the doctor's instructions.