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Mustard Seed 芥子
Mustard (Sinapis alba) is a plant from family Cruciferae. The dried mature seeds of the plant are used in TCM.
Taste, Characteristic, and Meridian
Pungent, warm. Returns to the lung meridian.
Value in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Warms the lungs, clears away phlegm and regulates qi, eliminates stagnations, activates meridians, relieves pain.
It is used in treating cold and phlegm cough, distending pain in chest and hypochondrium, phlegm stagnation in meridians, numbness and pain in joints, phlegm-dampness effusion,
gangrene, yin-abscesses.
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