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活血止痛药 · Blood-moving

Turmeric Rhizome jiāng huáng · 姜黄

Curcuma longa (Curcumae Longae Rhizoma)

Nature and flavour. Acrid, bitter and warm; Liver and Spleen systems.

The same plant that supplies the everyday kitchen spice, and separately a classical drug for moving blood and qi to ease pain. Classical sources record it for stabbing chest and flank pain, for amenorrhoea attributed to blood stasis, for painful menstruation, and for wind-damp pain of the shoulder and arm; it is also applied externally in classical practice to swellings and sprains.

性味归经。辛、苦，温；归肝、脾经。

即日常食用姜黄的同一植物来源，同时又是传统的活血行气止痛药。古籍记载用于胸胁刺痛、血滞经闭、痛经，以及风湿肩臂疼痛；亦有外用于肿痛与扭伤的传统记载。

Classical category · no formulas, no dosages, no herb-drug combinations are given.
Safety. Avoid in pregnancy. Not advisable with bile-duct obstruction or gallstones without a medical assessment first. Rare but genuine reports exist of liver injury from concentrated curcumin supplements — this page does not claim culinary turmeric carries the same risk, and the two are not interchangeable because the supplement is a concentrated extract, not the spice. Curcumin is known to affect anticoagulant and antiplatelet medicine, and the interaction picture is not fully mapped, so combining them unsupervised is not advisable.

孕妇慎用。胆管阻塞或胆结石者应先经医学评估再决定。浓缩姜黄素补充剂有肝损伤的不良报告（罕见但属实）；本页面不断言日常食用姜黄具有相同风险，二者也不可互相替代，因为补充剂是浓缩提取物而非香料本身。姜黄素已知会影响抗凝与抗血小板药物，相互作用尚未被完全厘清，不宜在无人指导下同用。

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