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Pin Yin: bai jie zi
Common name: white mustard seed
Botanical family: Cruciferae
Botanical name: Brassica alba (L.) Boiss.
Primary action: Transform Cold Phlegm
Secondary actions:
Rectify Qi
Temperature: warm
Taste: acrid
Entering Channel: Lu, St
Actions:
Expels Phlegm and moves Lung Qi; used for cough, wheezing, distension, and pain associated with Cold Phlegm of Lungs.
Dissipates nodules, reduces swelling, and alleviates pain; used for Cold Phlegm in the Channels, with joint pains, body aches, and watery oozing sores and Yin boils.
(See
Cold Phlegm Blocking Lungs;
Phlegm
.)
Indications: cough,, chest distension and pain
Dosage:
1-3 qian.
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