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<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-19T20:52:51.718542+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">chuan wu</name>
  </names>
  <safety toxic="true">Recorded toxic in this catalogue. Read the cautions on the record.</safety>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Dispels Wind-Damp and warms the channels</summary>
      <indication>Chronic Wind-Cold-Damp Bi with severe, fixed pain of the joints and limbs that gets worse in the cold</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Disperses Cold and relieves severe pain</summary>
      <indication>Cold pain in the abdomen, or in the chest and Heart region</indication>
      <indication>Cold Shan (hernia-type) pain</indication>
      <indication>Pain from traumatic injury</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Relieves pain (external use)</summary>
      <indication>Cold-Damp aching and swelling, applied to the skin; classically the unprocessed root was used only this way</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
