Nature and taste enter the meridian: pungent, bitter and warm, and enter the bladder meridian and kidney meridian.
Efficacy: relieving exterior syndrome, dispelling cold, expelling wind and removing dampness, and relieving pain.
Application:
1, used for exogenous wind-cold, aversion to cold and fever, headache and body pain.
2. It is used for limb pain and shoulder pain caused by the invasion of pathogenic wind, cold and dampness, especially for upper body pain.
Chinese angelica
Nature and taste: pungent, bitter, warm, liver, bladder and kidney meridians.
Efficacy: expelling wind and removing dampness, removing arthralgia and relieving exterior syndrome.
Application:
1, used for rheumatic joint pain, especially lower joint pain. Mainly used for joint pain of waist, legs and lower limbs.
2. It is used for exterior syndrome of dampness and pathogenic wind and cold, but it is weaker than Notopterygium, so it is often used with Notopterygium.
Generally speaking, Notopterygium is dry, with divergent tendency and good rheumatism; Its unique activity is mild, and its divergence is not as good as that of Notopterygium, but it is good at treating joint pain in the lower part.