Tian Ma
Gastrodiae Rhizoma
sweet, neutral
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Extinguish Wind and Stop Tremor
CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Headache
- Dizziness
- Convulsions
- Wind stroke
- Epilepsy
- Tetany
- Opisthotonos
- Grand mal seizure
- Migraine
- Hemiplegia
- Numbness in the extremities
- Low back pain
- Muscle and joint pain of the extremities
Tian Ma is sweet and neutral giving it a tonifying effect on the one organ system that it enters; the liver. This wonderful herb gets the liver qi and blood moving while eliminating wind. Although it is neutral, the Bensky Materia Medica claims that it also has a moistening and cooling effect on the liver.
Channels: liver
COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
- POSSIBILITIES:
- Sedative
- Immune support
- Hypotensive
- Antiepileptic
- Anti-inflammatory
- Arthritis
- Childhood febrile seizure
- Vertigo
- Muscle pain
- Knee pain
- Hypertension
- Blurry vision
- Deafness
- Biliary congestion
Formulas:
- Ban Xia Bai Zhu Tian Ma Tang
- Tian Ma Gou Teng Yin
- Yu Zhen San
Contraindications: there are no contraindications documented for Tian Ma
Zoo Image: a rhino policeman standing in a puddle on a windy day leaning on his night stick is giving a drunk test to a rhino having spasms about to hit his head on a sign