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<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T16:36:54.349532+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <licence>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.</licence>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">she xiang</name>
    <name type="chinese">麝香</name>
    <name type="latin">Moschus</name>
    <name type="english">Musk</name>
    <name type="japanese">jako</name>
    <name type="korean">sahyang</name>
  </names>
  <category>Aromatic Open Orifices</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Spleen</channel>
    <channel>Heart</channel>
    <channel>Liver</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Powerfully opens the Orifices and Luo vessels, revives the Spirit and unblocks closed disorders</summary>
      <indication>Warm-pathogen disease with Ying-level Heat attacking the Pericardium: convulsions, delirium, stupor and fainting</indication>
      <indication>Closed disorders of Yang, Yin or Phlegm type, with coma, delirium or seizures; paired with cooling herbs when the closure is Hot and warming herbs when it is Cold</indication>
      <indication>Wind-stroke</indication>
      <indication>Tetanic collapse</indication>
      <indication>Seizures</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Invigorates Blood, dissipates masses, reduces swelling, resolves toxicity, opens the channels and relieves pain</summary>
      <indication>Serious Blood stasis: fixed palpable masses, amenorrhea, and chest or abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Red, hot, swollen toxic sores and carbuncles, used internally or on the skin</indication>
      <indication>Channels and collaterals blocked by traumatic injury or by painful obstruction (Bi)</indication>
      <indication>Coronary artery disease</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Hastens delivery and expels a dead fetus</summary>
      <indication>Difficult labour</indication>
      <indication>A dead fetus or placenta that will not come down</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
