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Curcuma, also known as Guang Curcuma and Sichuan Curcuma, is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine in my country. It is the dried root of the ginger plant Curcuma aromatica. It is cool in nature, bitter and pungent in taste, and is mainly used to treat diseases such as vomiting blood, coma due to fever, and retrograde menstruation in women. Let me introduce it in detail below.

1. Clear away dampness and heat from the liver and gallbladder

Curcuma is cold in nature and enters the liver and gallbladder meridians. It can clear away damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder and treat damp-heat jaundice. It can be combined with Artemisia capillaris and Gardenia jasminoides; combined with Centella asiatica, it can treat cholelithiasis.

2. Cooling blood, lowering qi and stopping bleeding

Curcuma is pungent, bitter, and hot. Its bitter taste can descend and drain. It enters the blood of the liver meridian and can cool blood, descend qi, and stop bleeding. It is used for vomiting blood, epistaxis, and retrograde menstruation caused by qi and fire. It can be combined with raw rehmannia, moutan bark, gardenia, etc. to clear heat and cool blood, relieve depression and reduce fire, such as raw rehmannia decoction (Medical Insights); it can be used for hematuria and hematuria caused by heat in the lower abdomen and damage to blood vessels. It can be used together with raw rehmannia, small thistle, etc., such as Curcuma powder (Puji Fang).

3. Relieve depression and open up the mind

Curcuma is pungent, dispersing, bitter and laxative, can relieve depression and open the orifices, and is cold in nature and enters the heart meridian, can clear heart heat, so it can be used for coma caused by phlegm obscuring the heart orifices, and heat trapped in the pericardium. It can be used with Acorus calamus and Gardenia, such as Acorus calamus and Curcuma Decoction (Complete Book of Febrile Diseases); for the treatment of epilepsy caused by phlegm retention, it can be used with alum to resolve phlegm and open the orifices, such as Baijin Pills (Wonderful Prescriptions for Health Preservation).