Eagle Herbs

Pinellia is a great drying herb that also addresses nausea.

Mentioned in these formula finders: cholesterol, chronic headaches

Alternative Names:

• Pinellia, Ovate Atractylodes and Gastrodia Decoction
• Pinellia, Largehead Atractylodes and Tall Gastordia Decoction
• ban xia bai zhu tian ma tang
• Pan-hsia-pai-chu-tien-ma-tang
• pan hsia pai chu tien ma tang
• ban xia bai zhi tian ma tang
• ban xia bai shu tian ma tang
• hange byakuzyutu tenma to
• hange byakujutsu temma to

Other Signs: bloating, gurgling, gas, loose stools, dizziness with heavy headedness, nausea/vomiting

Headache Type(s): Tension headache arising from neck and shoulder tension, Headache associated with high blood pressure, high cholesterol

Ingredients:

Tian Ma 天麻 gastrodia rhizome Rhizoma Gastrodiae Elatae

• This herb “extinguishes internal wind”. Internal wind is stress induced neurological problems such as headaches and muscle spasms.

Ban Xia 半夏 pinellia rhizome, pinellia tuber Rhizoma Pinelliae Ternatae

• This herb dries the excessive fluids in the Stomach. This is where phlegm comes from initially. When phlegm is kicked up by internal wind, it can cause dizziness and vertigo.

Bai Zhu 白术 , bai shu ovate atractylodes, (white) atractylodes rhizome

• Another anti-phlegm herb that also strengthens the digestion to prevent the creation of additional phlegm.

Da Zao 大棗 jujube, Chinese date Jujubae Fructus
Sheng Jiang 生薑 fresh ginger rhizome Zingiberis Rhizoma
Gan Cao 甘草 licorice root Radix Glycyrrhizae [caution]

• The three herbs described above are known in American Chinese medicine schools as “the three candies”. They’re often used together. Date, licorice and ginger and are delicious like candy, but they’re also really good at waking up the Stomach so that it doesn’t generate any more dampness.

Ju Hong 橘紅 tangerine flavedo, red tangerine peel Pc. Citris

• This is the more potent portion of an herb that shows up in a few formulas here at EagleHerbs called chen pi, or tangerine peel. The entire peel includes the oil-filled superficial skin, plus some of the white rind beneath. however, Ju Hong is only the oil-filled superficial skin making it even more potent at drying the excessive fluids in the stomach that serve as a precurser to the phlegm that causes the dizziness this formula addresses.

Fu Ling 茯苓 sclerotium of tuckahoe, China root, hoelen, Indian bread Poria Cocos

• Another herb for excess fluids, but it doesn’t directly dry them as much as “leech them out” through the urinary tract. So, it is a mild diuretic. It also has a gentle calming effect.