Cang Er Zi 40 packets 1 gram

Cang Er Zi Granules, 2 gm

Brand: TCM Zone 5:1 Singles

English name: xanthium fruit, cockleburr fruit

Chinese name: Cang Er Zi, 2 gms

Unit Size: box of 40/1 gm packets

Potency: 5:1 extract granules

Taste: Sweet, bitter - Bensky

Properties: Warm, Toxic - Bensky

Contraindications: OverServing Size can lead to vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. - Bensky

Chinese Symptomology: Any nasal or sinus problem with a thick, viscous discharge and related headache; Deep-source nasal congestion with headache, thick nasal discharge, and a loss of smell; wind-damp painful obstruction or skin disorders with itching; Splitting headache that radiates to the back of the neck. - Bensky

Actions: Disperses wind, unblocks the orifices, removes painful obstruction, eliminates damp qi from the skin, treats sores - Bensky

Pattern: Wind and Dampness; Deep-source nasal congestion; exterior wind

Channels Entered: Lung - Bensky

Ingredients: Cang Er Zi - Xanthii Fructus

Excerpted from Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed

• Disperses wind and dampness and opens the nasal passages: for any nasal or sinus problem with a thick, viscous discharge and related headache. One of the main herbs for deep-source nasal congestion with headache, thick nasal discharge, and a loss of smell.
• Disperses wind and dispels dampness: for wind-damp painful obstruction or skin disorders with ithcing.
• Dispels exterior wind: as an auxiliary herb for exterior disorders with a splitting headache that radiates to the back of the neck.

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