What are the effects and functions of Radix Ligusticum chuanxiong?

Many Chinese medicinal materials have good effects in curing diseases and improving physical fitness, and the effects of a Chinese medicinal material are diverse. Radix Angelicae Pubescentis is a relatively common Chinese medicinal material. It is a perennial herb of the pea family. Radix Angelicae Pubescentis is often needed in the field of traditional Chinese medicine. Let me introduce to you some of the effects of Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, hoping it will be of some help to you.

1. Dispel wind and dampness

This product is pungent and warm, and its pungent property can disperse the pathogens, and its warmth can overcome cold and dampness. The eight liver meridians can dispel wind and dampness. As stated in Compendium of Materia Medica: Ligusticum chuanxiong "treats all kinds of rheumatic pains and contractures of tendons and bones." If wind, cold and dampness invade the limbs and meridians, causing limb pain, numbness, and difficulty in flexion and extension. This product can be used to dispel wind, cold and dampness, and once the pathogenic factors are gone, all symptoms will heal themselves.

2. Relax muscles and activate joints

This product is pungent, dispersing, warming and enters the liver meridian, and the liver governs the tendons. Therefore, this product has the effect of relaxing the tendons and activating the collaterals. For the external wind-cold evil, the meridian qi is not able to flow freely. Symptoms include rapid contraction of the muscles and veins in the limbs, which are unable to move freely. You can use Ligusticum chuanxiong to dispel wind and cold, relax muscles and activate collaterals to treat it. For example, the "Selected Chinese Herbal Medicines of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai" selected this product to treat muscle and bone spasms.

3. Promote blood circulation and relieve pain

This product is pungent, dispersing, warming and unblocking, enters the blood of the liver meridian, so it can promote blood circulation and relieve pain. This product can be used to treat various pains in the body, heart, abdomen, waist and knees, inside and outside, because it is pungent and warm, and can activate blood circulation and benefit qi. When blood and qi flow smoothly, there will be no pain.

4. Detoxify and resolve rash. "Lingmi Dan Yao Jian" says: "It can treat heat toxins." "Yang Cheng's Experience Prescriptions" selects this product to treat the initial stage of swelling and toxins. "Selected Chinese Herbal Medicines of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai" uses this product to treat scrotal eczema, sores and swelling. Therefore, the herb can be used to treat sores, tinea, swelling, and scrotal eczema, and is usually boiled in water for external washing. Because this medicine can be used for external washing and can also guide the medicine into the meridians and blood vessels. It has the characteristics of dispelling wind, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain.

Of course, simply using Ligusticum chuanxiong cannot cure a certain disease. If you want to treat such diseases, you need to use it together with other Chinese medicinal materials so that the effect of the medicinal materials can be maximized. In addition, you cannot take medicine at will. If you feel unwell, you need to see a doctor first.