Pogostemon seu Agastache, Huo Xiang 藿香
Wrinkled Giant-Hyssop, Patchouli (Agastache)
Cablin Patchouli (Pogostemon)
Huo Xiang (Agastache) (TCM)
Guang Huo Xiang (Pogostemon) (TCM)
Paachi (Pogostemon, Ayurveda)
Agastache rugosa
Photo by Dalgial (Wikimedia)
Pogostemon cablin
Photo by Forest & Kim Starr (Wikimedia)
Botanical name:
Two different herbs supply Huo Xiang:
1. Agastache rugosa (Tu Huo Xiang)
2. Pogostemon cablin (syn. P. patchouli var. sauvis, Mentha cablin) (Guang Huo Xiang)
Parts used:
Herb
Temperature & Taste:
Warm, dry. Pungent, Aromatic
Classification:
Uses:
1. Aromatically Transforms Damp, Benefits the Stomach:
-Nausea, Vomiting
-Morning Sickness
-lingering Damp blocking the Stomach with epigastric distention and vomiting
2. Clears Summer-heat and Damp, Clears the Exterior:
-Heat and Damp during the Summer, with obstruction of the abdomen
-Fever, Malaria, Typhoid, Encephalitis, Leptospirosis
-Nasal congestion, Sinusitis, Headache
3. Moves the Qi, Opens Obstruction:
-Menstrual discomfort and cramping
-Chest oppression, Angina Pectoris
Dose:
Infusion (1 in 10): half–1 fluid ounce
Decoction: 6–9 grams; added in the last few minutes of decocting and infused for 10 minutes.
Comment:
Main Combinations:
1. Influenza with nausea, vomiting, from Wind-Cold, Pogostemon/Agastache with … available in PRO version
2. Acute / externally-contracted Damp, Pogostemon/Agastache with … available in PRO version
3. Summer-heat, Pogostemon/Agastache with … available in PRO version
4. Nausea, vomiting with distention of the epigastrium and chest, Pogostemon/Agastache, … available in PRO version
5. Morning Sickness:
i. Pogostemon/Agastache with … available in PRO version
ii. Pogostemon/Agastache with … available in PRO version
6. Vomiting and Diarrhea:
i. from Spleen and Stomach weakness, Pogostemon/Agastache with … available in PRO version
ii. from Damp-Heat, Pogostemon/Agastache with … available in PRO version
7. Headache, Gastroenteritis, acute Diarrhea or Food Poisoning with predominately Damp symptoms, Pogostemon/Agastache with … available in PRO version
8. Infantile Diarrhea from Damp-Heat without Fever, Pogostemon/Agastache with … available in PRO version
9. Early-stage Infectious Damp-Heat disease with Fever, heaviness, body aches, abdominal distention, scanty urine, Pogostemon/Agastache with … available in PRO version
10. Early-stage Dysentery with Fever, Pogostemon/Agastache with … available in PRO version
11. Typhoid from Damp-Heat, Pogostemon/Agastache with … available in PRO version
12. Prevention of Epidemic Encepahlitis B, Pogostemon/Agastache with … available in PRO version
13. Hepatosplenomegaly from Qi stagnation, Pogostemon/Agastache, … available in PRO version
Major Formulas:
Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Shui
Huo Po Xia Ling Tang
Po Chai Pills
Shi Xiang Fan Sheng Wan
Cautions:
Not used in Heat from Yin deficiency.
Main Preparations used:
Distilled Water
