Key Characteristics: invigorates the blood, breaks up blood stasis, drives qi downward, treats wind-damp painful obstruction
Properties:
acrid, bitter, warm
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Spleen, Stomach, Liver
Actions:
- invigorates blood unblocks menses, chest ,abdominal pain, amenorrhea, dysmenorrheal, caused by stasis and cold deficiency, pain, swelling trauma
- moves qi alleviates pain, abdominal, epigastric pain
- wind painful obstruction with blood stasis, especially in shoulder.