Tianma has the effect of calming the liver and restraining wind, and can be combined with other herbs to relieve migraine symptoms.
Tianma is sweet and flat in nature, belonging to the liver meridian, with the effect of calming the wind and stopping spasm, suppressing liver yang, dispelling wind and clearing the meridians (dispelling wind and clearing the channels), mainly used for treating headache and dizziness, hand and foot paralysis, numbness of the limbs, rheumatism paralysis, and child’s convulsions (pediatric diseases mainly manifested by dizziness, apoplexy, and convulsions), etc. It is also used for treating headache and dizziness caused by hyperactive liver yang, which causes dizziness, dizziness, and headache.
To treat hyperactivity of liver yang (liver yang is over-exuberant, causing dizziness, dizziness, headache and other symptoms) leading to headache and dizziness, it can be paired with Crochet, such as Tianma Crochet Drink, which can calm the liver and extinguish the wind (regulating the function of the liver to get rid of the internal wind), and clearing away heat and invigorating the blood.
For the treatment of dizziness and headache caused by wind-phlegm upward disturbance (wind-phlegm and phlegm evil qi disturbing the head), it can be combined with Pinellia, Poria and Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, such as Pinellia, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae and Tianma Soup, which can help to dissolve phlegm and extinguish wind and strengthen the spleen to dispel dampness.
Children and pregnant women are forbidden to use Tianma. If the patient has headache symptoms, it is recommended to consult a Chinese medicine practitioner in time to identify and treat the symptoms, so as not to delay the condition by blindly using medication on one’s own.