Toxicodendron, Gan Qi 干漆 Chinese Lacquer treeGan Qi (TCM)Kalinga (Sanskrit)Shri khan da (Tibet) Toxicodendron vernicifluumKämpher (Kaempfer), Amoenitatum exoticarum, (1712) Toxicodendron vernicifluum(Photo by Maghasito) (Wikimedia) Dried Toxicodendron Resin (Adam, 2022) Botanical name: Toxicodendron vernicifluum (syn. Rhus verniciflua), T. succedaneum (syn. Rhus succedaneum) Parts used: Resin Temperature & Taste: Warm, dry. Bitter, Pungent. Toxic Classification: K. Move the Blood Uses: Moves the Blood, Clears Stasis: Amenorrheaabdominal Masses from Blood stagnationTrauma; ‘knits tendons and bones’ (Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing, TCM)LumbagoTumors, Cancer; ‘dissolves solid and hard stagnation and accumulations that have lasted for years’. (Zhang Yuan Su, TCM)considered effective for long-standing Blood stagnation; ‘Dredges through the Channels’. (Zhen Quan, TCM) Settles Wind, Clears Damp: Wind-Cold-Damp muscles and Joint pain (Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing, TCM)‘Five kinds of Paralysis’. (Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing, TCM)Disperses invading pathogenic Wind’. (Da Ming, TCM) Promotes Digestion: Cachexia or chronic weakness associated with poor digestion and blood stagnationRickets, weakness or wasting in Children Kills Worms: abdominal pain due to Worms‘Kills (the) Three Worms’. (Zhen Quan, TCM) Dose: Only used in Pills or Powders, not decocted.Prepared Resin in Pills or Powders: 60–100mg as a dose (Bensky) Comment: Older TCM authorities often accounted it as having tonic qualities: ‘fills the Marrow…

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