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title: "E Zhu"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/468/e-zhu"
---

 ![e zhu, curcumae rhizoma.jpg](/u/e-zhu-curcumae-rhizoma-mJyzLU.jpg) 

# E Zhu

### Curcumae Rhizoma

_acrid, bitter, warm_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Circulate Blood**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Abdominal pain
- Menstrual disorders
 - Dysmenorrhea
 - Amenorrhea
- Masses
 - Abdominal
 - Epigastric
- Abdominal distention
- Fullness in the chest
- Childhood malnutrition

E Zhu is bitter, acrid, and warm. It enters the liver and spleen
systems. Its relationship to spleen function allows it to treat
disorders in children that result in malnutrition.

E Zhu is often prescribed with San Leng to move qi and blood.
San Leng is a stronger blood moving medicine while E Zhu is
better at moving the qi.

**Channels:** liver, spleen

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Masses in the abdomen
- Enlargement of the liver
- Gastrointestinal tract disorders
- Enlargement of the spleen
 - Antitumor
- Abortion induction
- Antimicrobial

**Formulas:**
- Mu Xiang Bing Lang Wan
- Mu Xiang Liu Qi Yin

**Contraindications:** do not prescribe E Zhu to patients that
are pregnant or to patients that suffer metrorrhagia

**Zoo Image:** a roadrunner is dissolving her chest and abdomen in a boiling qi
pot along with her panties while her child wants the fruit on the clothes line

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