Chi Shao 40 packets 2 grams

Brand: TCM Zone 5:1 Singles

English name: red peony root

Chinese name: Chi Shao Granules

Unit Size: box of 40/2 gm packets

Potency: 5:1

Taste: Sour, Bitter - Bensky

Properties: Slightly cold - Bensky

Contraindications: Use with caution in those with cold from deficiency. - Bensky

Chinese Symptomology: abdominal pain, traumatic injury pain and swelling; boils; fever, purple tongue, maculae, and bleeding due to the chaotic movement of hot blood. - Bensky

Actions: Invigorates the blood, transforms stasis, stops pain, cools heat in the blood - Bensky

Pattern: Blood stasis, traumatic injury; heat entering the blood level. - Bensky

Channels Entered: Liver, Spleen - Bensky

Ingredients: Chi Shao - Paeoniae Radix rubra

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

• Invigorates the blood and dispels blood stasis: for abdominal pain. Also for the swelling and pain associated with traumatic injury and the early stages of boils.
• Clears heat and cools the blood: for heat entering the blood level with fever, purple tongue, maculae, and bleeding due to the chaotic movement of hot blood. Also for gynecological problems associated with hot blood.

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