What's the difference between ginger and notopterygium?

1, meaning different: Notopterygium is a common Chinese medicine, and ginger is not a medicinal material, and there is no medicinal material called ginger, which should be a wrong statement.

2. Different effects: Drugs that dispel wind and remove dampness, dispel cold and relieve pain, and dredge channels and collaterals have better effects, but the fields of dried ginger and Notopterygium are different, and dried ginger does not have these effects.

3. Different proportions: Radix Angelicae Pubescentis can be combined with Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae and Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae for muscle, back, hand and foot pain. You don't need the ginger in the ginger life.

Extended data:

Duhuoxin is bitter and dry, warm in nature, good at expelling wind, removing dampness and relieving pain. It can be used for a long time if the arthralgia due to wind-cold and dampness is blocked in muscle joints. Notopterygium root has a strong smell and strong divergence, mainly dispelling cold, and is good at treating rheumatism exterior syndrome, especially upper limb shoulder back pain and sun headache. It is a medicine for inducing menstruation in the sun meridian.

In addition, compared with Notopterygium, Radix Angelicae Pubescentis has a light smell and weak divergence. He is good at removing rheumatism between bones and muscles, and is good at treating rheumatism in the lower body, especially waist, knee and leg pain and shaoyin headache. It is a meridian-dredging drug for shaoyin meridian.

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