Bencao Index https://bencaoindex.com/ https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/bai-jie-zi/ Free to use and republish with visible attribution and a link back to the source page. The catalogue is a reference work and is knowingly incomplete; nothing in it is medical advice. <a href="https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/bai-jie-zi/">Bencao Index</a> bai jie zi 白芥子 Semen Sinapis White Mustard Seed hyakugaishi paekgaeja Transform Phlegm Cold Lung

Warms the Lungs, regulates Qi and expels Phlegm

Cold-Phlegm build-up, often chronic, with cough and wheezing, plenty of thin white or clear sputum, and a distended, tight chest with pain in the chest and ribs Pain in the upper chest or at the diaphragm where Cold-Phlegm obstructs Breathlessness

Moves Qi, dissipates nodules, unblocks the collaterals and relieves pain

Phlegm-Damp lodged in the channels, with numb limbs Cold-Phlegm blocking the channels, with body aches and joint pain Yin-type flat abscesses and boils, and tuberculosis of the bone Spreading sores and bed sores Scrofula and other Phlegm nodules or masses