• Gou Teng, Uncaria vine - 4 oz.
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Gou Teng, Uncaria vine - 4 oz.

Gou Teng, Uncaria vine - 4 oz.

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Uncaria extinguishes wind and alleviates spasms; Drains Liver heat and pacifies Liver yang; Releases the exterior


Excerpted from Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica

  • Combine with tian zhu huang, huang lian, and chan tui for seizures*
  • Combine with long chi, shi gao, and zhi zi for childhood seizures.*
  • Combine with tian ma, ju hua, and shi jue ming for dizziness and vertigo due to Liver wind, as in tian ma gou teng yin.*
  • Add shi gao and fu shen for more extreme cases with accompanying symptoms of facial flush, short temper, and wiry pulse.*
  • Combine with xia ku cao, uj hua, and shi jue ming for hypertension due to ascendent Liver yang.*
  • Combine with bo he, chan tui, and jing jie for externally-contracted wind-heat with headaches and red eyes. Also used for incomplete expression of rashes.*

English Name: Uncaria Vine; Gambir
Chinese Name: Gou Teng
Unit Size: 4 oz.
Potency: 8:1
Taste: Sweet - Bensky
Properties: Slightly cold - Bensky
Channels Entered: Pericardium, Liver
Actions: Extinguishes wind and alleviates spasms; Drains Liver heat and pacifies Liver yang; Releases the exterior
Pattern: Liver heat with internal stirring of Liver wind; Liver fire; Ascendant Liver yang patterns; Wind-heat patterns
Chinese Symptomology: Tremors, seizures, eclampsia due to Liver heat with internal stirring of Liver wind; Headache, irritability, red eyes, dizziness due to Liver fire and ascendant Liver yang patterns; Fever, headache, red eyes due to exterior wind-heat - Bensky
Materia Medica: Extinguish Wind & Tremors
Contraindications: Use with caution in the absence of wind-heat or heat from excess.

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