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Pin Yin: yi mu cao
Common name: motherwort
Botanical family: Labiatae
Botanical name: Leonurus heterophyllus Sweet
Primary action: Quicken Blood, Transform Stasis
Secondary actions:
Drain Dampness, Promote Urination
Temperature: cool
Taste: acrid, bitter
Entering Channel: PC, Lv, Ht, Kd
Actions:
Quickens Blood and regulate menses; used in many types of gynecological problems.
Disperses abdominal masses induced by Blood Vacuity with Blood Stasis.
Promotes urination; used in cases of systemic edema, also in bleeding in the urine.
(See
Blood Stasis
.)
Dosage:
3-10 qian.
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