Turmeric has the efficacy of breaking the blood and moving qi, promoting menstruation and relieving pain, and can be used in the treatment of thoracic and hypochondriac (chest and rib area collectively) stabbing pain, thoracic paralysis (chest stuffy pain) heart pain, rheumatism, shoulder and arm pain, bruises and swelling and pain, and other conditions. The contraindication of this medicine is that pregnant women should not use it. Turmeric is the dried rhizome of Curcuma longa, family Zingiberaceae. The drug is hard and warm in nature, and belongs to the liver and spleen meridians. It has the efficacy of activating blood and qi, promoting menstruation and relieving pain, and can be used for the treatment of qi stagnation and blood stasis (blood stagnation due to the lack of qi) resulting in thoracic and hypochondriac stabbing pains, chest paralysis and heart pains, dysmenorrhea and menstrual occlusion, obstruction of the masses (women with lumps in the lower abdomen), and bruises and pains, and so on. The adverse effects of the drug are not clear, but its contraindication is contraindicated in pregnant women. If you need to use this drug, have to go to a regular hospital, under the guidance of a professional physician to identify the treatment.