Herbs That Extinguish Wind And Stop Tremors

Herbs That Extinguish Wind and Stop Tremors:

  • For internal wind.
  • Results from liver and kidney imbalances - yin deficiency, ascendant liver yang, blood deficiency, high fevers.
  • Symptoms: headache, dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus, irritability, vomiting, palpitations with anxiety, muscle twitches.

Section Herbal Summary:

  • Gou Teng, Tian Ma
    • - similar, headache, dizziness, vertigo, often used together.
    • Gou Teng - sweet, cold - heat-induced wind.
    • Tian Ma - sweet, warm, dry - wind-cold accompanied by phlegm-dampness.
  • Gou Teng, Ling Yang Jiao - calm the liver and extinguish wind - tremors, convulsions due to intense heat, often used together.
    • Ling Yang Jiao - enters the blood level and relieves toxicity.
    • Gou Teng - qi-level herb, clears and drains, good for problems secondary to externally contracted wind-heat.
  • Di Long - spasms and convulsions from heat, wheezing and painful obstruction.
  • Shi Jue Ming, Bai Ji Li - focus on the liver.
  • Quan Xie, Jiang Can, Wu Gong - dispel wind, stops spasms, often used together.
    • Wu Gong (most intense) - acrid, warm, good for wind-cold, topically used for swellings.
    • Jiang Can - phlegm heat.
    • Quan Xie - acrid and neutral, cases involving heat.

Chinese Herbsort icon Functions and Usage
Bai Ji Li (Caltrop Fruit, Puncture Vine Fruit)
  • Calms the liver, anchors the yang - headache, vertigo due to liver yang rising.
  • Expels wind-heat, brightens the eyes - red, painful, swelling of the eye.
  • Promotes the smooth flow of qi - chest/flank pain and distention, insufficient lactation.
  • Expels wind - stops itching.
Di Long (Earthworm)
  • Drains liver heat, stops spasms an convulsions - high fever with convulsions and seizures.
  • Clears lung heat - wheezing.
  • Clears heat in the channels and promotes movement - swollen, painful joints with limited range of motion, sequelae of wind-stroke.
  • Clears heat and promotes urination - hot painful urinary dysfunction, edema.
  • Hypertension associated with liver yang rising.
Gou Teng (Gambir Vine Stems and Thorns)
  • Extinguishes wind and alleviates spasms - spasms, muscle tremors, seizures.
  • Drains liver heat and pacifies liver yang - headaches, irritability, red eyes, dizziness.
  • Releases the exterior - fever, headaches, red eyes.
Jiang Can (Silkworm)
  • Extinguishes liver wind, stops spasms and convulsions - childhood convulsions or facial paralysis, seizures from liver-wind or wind-phlegm-heat.
  • Expels wind, stops pain - headache, red eyes, sore, swollen throat from an OPI or liver wind, loss of voice.
  • Transforms phlegm, dissipates nodules - phlegm-heat scrofula and other phlegm nodules.
  • Expels wind and stops itching.
Ling Yang Jiao (Antelope Horn)
  • Extinguishes wind, controls spasms and convulsions - spasms, convulsions, seizures, expecially in children with high fever.
  • Calms the liver, anchors the yang - for liver yang rising, dizziness, headache, red eyes, photophobia, spasms, convulsions.
  • Drains heat and fire - delirium, manic behavior, loss of consciousness, heat in the pericardium.
Quan Xie (Scorpion)
  • Extinguishes liver wind, stops tremors and convulsions - liver wind phlegm patterns with spasms, acute/chronic childhood convulsions, tetanus, seizures, tremors, very effective!.
  • Fire toxic nodules - topically on toxic sores, swellings.
  • Unblocks the collaterals - painful headaches.
Shi Jue Ming (Abolone Shell)
  • Drains liver fire, descends rising yang - headache, dizziness, red eyes.
  • Liver heat disturbing the vision - photophobia, pterygium, visual obstruction.
Tian Ma (Gastrodia Root)
  • Calms the liver, extinguishes liver wind from either heat or cold patterns - spasms, tremors, headache, epilepsy, numbness, dizziness, wind-stroke, childhood convulsion, can be used for problems due to heat or blood deficiency.
  • Extinguishes wind, alleviates pain - headache, dizziness, migraine headaches that occur with wind-phlegm patterns, hemiplegia, dizziness, numbness.
  • Disperse painful obstruction due to wind phlegm - numbness and pain of the lower back and extremities.
Wu Gong (Centipede)
  • Extinguishes wind, stops spasms and convulsions - lock jaw, seizures, acute/chronic childhood convulsions.
  • Dissipates toxins and nodules - sores, carbuncles, neck lumps, snake bite.
  • Unblocks the collaterals - painful headaches.