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title: "Tian Ma"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/603/tian-ma"
---

 ![tian ma, gastrodiae rhizoma.jpg](/u/tian-ma-gastrodiae-rhizoma-JHOQ1i.jpg) 

# 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

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