Qiang Huo, 1lb

Notopterygium release the exterior and disperses cold; Guides qi to the greater yang channel and Governing vessel - Bensky

Excerpted from Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

• Releases the exterior and disperses cold: for exterior cold patterns with such symptoms as chills, fever, headache, body aches and pains. Most commonly used when accompanied by dampness with joint pain, a general feeling of heaviness, sleepiness. or when there is pain the the occipital regions as in Nine-Herb Decoction with Notopterygium (jiu wei qiang huo tang).*
• Guides qi the the greater yang channel and Governing vessel: to direct other herbs in a prescription to the areas served by these two channels.*