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<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T16:36:20.315688+00:00">
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">tian ma</name>
    <name type="chinese">天麻</name>
    <name type="latin">Rhizoma Gastrodiae</name>
    <name type="english">Gastrodia Rhizome</name>
    <name type="japanese">tanma</name>
    <name type="korean">cheonma</name>
  </names>
  <category>Extinguish Wind, Stop Tremors</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Liver</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Extinguishes Wind, calms the Liver and stops spasms and tremors</summary>
      <indication>Internal Liver Wind arising from Heat or Cold, with headache, dizziness, spasms and tremors</indication>
      <indication>Childhood convulsions and epilepsy</indication>
      <indication>Tonic-clonic spasms, opisthotonos and tetany</indication>
      <indication>Wind-stroke</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Subdues rising Liver Yang, extinguishes Wind and relieves pain</summary>
      <indication>Headache and dizziness from rising Liver Yang</indication>
      <indication>Wind-Phlegm with dizziness, headache or migraine</indication>
      <indication>Wind-stroke with one-sided paralysis, dizziness and numb limbs</indication>
      <indication>Suited to both Excess and Deficiency patterns</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Disperses Wind-Damp, frees the channels and relieves Bi</summary>
      <indication>Wind-Damp Bi with pain, heaviness and numbness of the lower back and limbs</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
