Ge Gen Granules, 100g Bottle

Brand: TCM Zone Single Herb Granules in Bottles

English name: Pueraria Root

Chinese name: Ge Gen Granules

Unit Size: 100g Bottle

Potency: 5:1 extract granules

Taste: Sweet, Acrid - Bensky

Properties: Cool - Bensky

Chinese Symptomology: Fever, headache, stiff or tight upper back and neck due to exterior disorders lodged in the muscles; Measles; Irritability and thrist due to externally-contracted heat; Wasting and thirsting with internal heat; Diarrhea or dysentery due to heat; Diarrhea due to Spleen deficiency; Headache, dizziness, tinnitus, paraestesias that accompany hypertension - Bensky

Actions: Raises the clear yang of yang brightness, encourages the Stomach qi and thus releases muscle layer heat and vents rashes; alleviates thirst by raising Stomach fluids, treats diarrhea. - Bensky

Pattern: Exterior disorders lodged in the muscles; Stomach heat; Externally-contracted heat; wasting and thirsting, Heat - Bensky

Channels Entered: Spleen, Stomach - Bensky

Ingredients

Ge Gen - Puerariae Radix

Excerpted from Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

• Discharges exterior conditions and releases the muscles: for exterior disorders lodged in the muscles manifesting in fever, headache, and stiff or tight upper back and neck.
• Relieves heat and generates fluids: for thirst due to Stomach heat. Especially appropriate in cases of externally-contracted heat.
• Vents and discharges measles: to hasten recovery from measles with incomplete expression of the rash.
• Relieves heat and generates fluids: for irritability and thirst from externally-contracted heat or wasting and thirsting diseases with internal heat.
• Raises the yang and stops diarrhea: for diarrhea or dysenteric disorders due to heat. Can also be used for diarrhea due to Spleen deficiency, when combined with appropriate herbs.
• Treats symptoms of hypertension: this herb has recently been used to treat the headache, dizziness, tinnitus, or paresthesias that can accompany hypertension.

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