What to compare
Compare soothing, moving, descending, digestive, and pain-related descriptions, and distinguish stagnation language from deficiency language.
Traditional grouping
Qi Regulating Herbs
5 herbs in this study group
How to read this category
This grouping collects traditional records used to discuss movement and regulation of qi. Liver, stomach, spleen, and downward-moving contexts may differ.
- Compare soothing, moving, descending, digestive, and pain-related descriptions, and distinguish stagnation language from deficiency language.
- Ongoing chest pain, severe abdominal pain, vomiting, or difficulty swallowing should never be reduced to “qi stagnation.”
Before you leave
Open at least one entry to check its medicinal part, processing context, contraindications, and uncertainty. A category organizes discovery; it does not support self-medication.
Tangerine Peel / Dried Citrus Peel
Citrus reticulata Blanco
Warm
Immature Bitter Orange / Fructus Aurantii Immaturus
Citrus aurantium L.
Slightly Cold
Costus Root / Saussurea Root / Aucklandia
Aucklandia lappa Decne.（Saussurea costus (Falc.) Lipsch.）
Warm
Nutgrass Rhizome / Cyperus Rhizome
Cyperus rotundus L.
Neutral
Buddha's Hand / Fingered Citron
Citrus medica L. var. sarcodactylis Swingle
Warm