Te Xiao Jing Zhui Tong Wan - Patent Neck Pain Relief Pills - TCM Herbal Formula

Chinese Name: Te Xiao Jing Zhui Tong Wan
English Name: Patent Neck Pain Relief Pills

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Individual Chinese Herbs In This Formula:


  • Bai Zhi
  • Herb Functions
    • Expels wind-cold, dampness
    • Opens nasal passages, sinus congestion (particularly with green discharge), alleviates pain (especially in the head region)
    • Resolve wind-cold symptoms especially with headaches (yangming - ST), supraorbital pain, congestion
    • Useful for swollen gums and toothache

  • Contraindications
    • Avoid in Yin/Blood deficiency
    • Avoid in Heat in the Blood

  • Chuan Xiong
  • Herb Functions
    • Invigorate blood, promote movement of Qi - any blood stasis pattern, important for gynecological issues (amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, difficult labor, lochioschesis).
    • Expels wind and alleviates pain - headache (temporal, vertex), dizziness, painful obstructions, skin issues.
    • Headache - moves qi upward and alleviates pain; headaches due to wind, heat, cold, blood deficiency.

  • Dang Gui
  • Herb Functions
    • Tonifies the blood, regulates menses - pallid, ashen complexion, tinnitus, blurred vision, palpitations, irregular menses, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea.
    • Invigorates/harmonizes the blood, disperses cold - important herb to stop pain due to blood stasis - abdominal pain, trauma, carbuncles due to blood stasis, chronic bi.
    • Moistens dry intestines due to blood deficiency.
    • Reduces swellings, expels pus, generates flesh - sores.

  • Ge Gen
  • Herb Functions
    • Releases muscles, clears heat - exterior disease in subcutaneous region and muscles (governed by spleen and stomach) - fever, headache, stiffness in the back and the neck.
    • Nourishes fluids, alleviates thirst - stomach heat, externally-contracted heat.
    • Vents measles - accelerates rash at early stages.
    • Alleviates diarrhea - diarrhea or dysenterial disorders due to heat; may be used for spleen deficiency diarrhea if combined with other herbs.
    • Alleviates symptoms of hypertension - headaches, dizziness, tinnitus.

  • Gu Sui Bu
  • Herb Functions
    • Tonify kidneys - weak low back and knee, diarrhea, tinnitus, decreased hearing, toothache, bleeding gums due to deficient kidneys.
    • Mending sinews and bones due to falls, fractures, contusions, sprains.
    • Stimulates growth of hair - used topically as a tincture for alopecia.

  • Huang Qi
  • Herb Functions
    • Tonifies spleen qi - lack of appetite, fatigue, diarrhea.
    • Raises yang qi of spleen and stomach - prolapse of uterus, stomach, rectum, uterine bleeding.
    • Augments the wei qi and stabilizes the exterior - deficiency w/spontaneous sweating, frequent colds or shortness of breath.
    • Tonify qi and blood due to loss of blood - postpartum fever.
    • Edema from deficiency.
    • Promote discharge of pus, generate flesh - sores due to deficiency.

  • Jiang Huang
  • Herb Functions
    • Invigorate blood, unblock menses - chest and abdominal pain, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, pain and swelling due to trauma.
    • Promote the movement of Qi, alleviate pain - epigastric and/or abdominal pain.
    • Expel wind, promote movement of blood - wind damp painful obstruction w/blood stasis (particularly in the shoulders).

  • Mo Yao
  • Herb Functions
    • Invigorate blood, dispel blood stasis, reduces swelling, alleviate pain - trauma, sores, carbuncles, swellings, abdominal masses, painful obstruction, chest pain, abdominal pain, amenorrhea.
    • Promotes healing of chronic non-healing sores.

  • Contraindications
    • Avoid During Pregnancy

  • Qiang Huo
  • Herb Functions
    • Release exterior, disperse cold - useful with wind-cold and damp associated body/joint pain
    • Guiding herb for the GV and Tai Yang Channels

  • Contraindications
    • Avoid in Blood and/or Yin Deficiency
    • Avoid with Exterior Deficiency

    • Ren Shen
    • Herb Functions
      • Strongly tonify yuan qi - extreme collapse of qi, shortness of breath, cold limbs, profuse sweating, weak pulse (often used alone for this condition after severe blood loss).
      • Tonify lung qi - wheezing, shortness of breath, w/kidneys failing to grasp the qi.
      • Strengthen the middle warmer - lethargy, no appetite, chronic diarrhea, prolapse of organs, distended chest/abdomen.
      • Generates fluids, stops thirst - xiao ke, damaged fluid due to high dever and profuse sweating.
      • Benefits heart qi, calms the spirit - palpitations, anxiety, insomnia, poor memory, restlessness due to qi and/or blood deficiency.

    • Contraindications
      • Avoid tea and turnips while taking ginseng.
      • Antagonist with Wu Ling Zhi, Incompatible with Li Lu.
      • Avoid with high blood pressure and/or liver yang rising.

    • Ru Xiang
    • Herb Functions
      • Invigorate blood, dispel blood stasis, alleviate pain - trauma, carbuncles and swellings, chest and/or abdominal pain.
      • Relax the sinews, invigorates the channels, alleviates pain - bi syndromes, rigidity, spasms.
      • Reduces swellings, generates flesh - topically for sores, carbuncles, traumatic injury.

    • Contraindications
      • Avoid During Pregnancy

    • Tian Ma
    • Herb Functions
      • 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.

    • Tu Si Zi
    • Herb Functions
      • Tonify kidneys, strengthens yin, secures essence, reserves urine - impotence, nocturnal emission, premature ejaculation, tinnitus, frequent urination, sore painful back, vaginal discharge.
      • Tonify kidney and liver, improves vision - liver and kidney yin and yang deficiency patterns with dizziness, tinnitus, blurred vision, floaters, etc.
      • Strengthen the spleen and kidneys - resolve diarrhea.
      • Calms the fetus - important herb for habitual and/or threatened miscarriage.