INDIVIDUAL HERBS
| Pharmaceutical Latin: | Myrrh Resina Commiphorae |
| Common English: | Myrrh Commiphora |
| Taste | Temperature | Entering Meridians | Dosage |
Bitter |
Neutral |
Heart Liver Spleen |
3-12g Large doses: up to 15g Tincture: 1-3ml Essential Oil: 2 drops in a gel cap with olive oil |
| Actions | Indications/Syndromes |
Invigorates the Blood, dispels Blood Stasis, alleviates pain and reduces swelling |
Blood Stasis with pain from trauma, sores, carbuncles, swellings, fixed abdominal masses, painful obstruction, chest pain, abdominal pain and amenorrhea |
Generates flesh and promotes healing |
Chronic non-healing sores |
CONTRAINDICATIONS |
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INCOMPATIBILITIES |
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS |
Rz. Corydalis |
Flos Carthami |
Pheretima/Lumbricus
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Qi and Blood Obstruction causing epigastric and abdominal pain. |
Chest and abdominal pain, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea due to Blood Stasis. |
Wind-Stroke with spasms and rigidity. Wind-Damp-Cold-Bi. |
Rx. Achyranthis Bidentatae |
Olibanum |
Olibanum or Olibanum |
Flank pain due to acute sprain. |
Disseminates and unblocks the organs and dredges the channels and collaterals to treat epigastric, flank, abdominal and joint pain. Abdominal pain during menstruation and irregular menstruation. Wind-Cold-Damp Bi with numbness throughout the body and unresponsive extremities. Swollen, painful sores and sores that are hard but not painful. Topically as a powder for skin lesions and ulcerations. |
Traumatic injuries with bruising. |
Olibanum |
Rx. Angelicae Sinensis |
Rz. et Rx. Notopterygii |
Abdominal masses with pain and dysmenorrhea. |
Postpartum abdominal pain with spotting. |
Bi syndrome. |
Flos Lonicerae |
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Redness and swelling of sores. |
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- This herb is the resin from the stem and was applied to corpses in ancient Egypt as a preservative.
- This herb acts as an astringent when applied to the lips.
- This herb is primarily used for severe pain from Blood Stasis.
- One source says that this herb regulates Qi.
- Both Mo Yao and Olibanum Ru Xiang invigorate the Blood, disperse Stasis, stop pain, reduce swelling and generate flesh. Ru Xiang is warm, piercingly aromatic, powerfully stops pain, acts more on Qi, more powerfully invigorates the Blood and relaxes the sinews. Mo Yao is neutral, bitter, powerfully breaks up Stagnation, drains, disperses Blood and acts more on the Blood.
- Unprepared Myrrh Shen Mo Yao is generally used externally or in pill form.
- Prepared Myrrh Zhi Mo Yao has a less disagreeable effect on digestion, tastes better, is stronger at invigorating Blood , stopping pain, restraining and inhibiting and generating flesh.