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Pin Yin: quan xie-
Common name: scorpion
Botanical family: (animal) Buthidae
Botanical name: Buthus martensi Karsch
Primary action: Extinguish Wind, Stop Spasm
Secondary actions:
Clear Heat Toxins
Temperature: neutral
Taste: acrid, toxic
Entering Channel: Lv
Actions:
Extinguishes Interior Wind associated with Liver Wind Phlegm; used for
spasms, convulsions, hemiplegia, headache and migraine, and Wind Damp
Painful Impediments of the Channels.
Detoxifies Fire Poison and stimulates sores and abscesses to heal.
(See
Interior Wind
;
Phlegm
;
Wind-Damp Bi
;
Heat Toxin
.)
Dosage:
0.8-1.5 qian; 0.3-0.5 qian if using only the tails.
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