Second, it can dredge collaterals and relieve pain. Lumbricus is a kind of insect medicine, and it is good at dredging orifices and activating collaterals. Chuanxiong rhizome is a qi medicine in blood, which is good at dredging collaterals and relieving pain. The combination of the two drugs enhances the power of dredging collaterals and relieving pain. Gastrodia elata, Uncaria rhynchophylla, Bombyx Batryticatus, Periostracum Cicadae and Calculus Bovis can be used to treat epilepsy in children. Adding Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Semen Persicae and Carthami Flos can treat traumatic headache. Adding periostracum cicadae, Bombyx Batryticatus, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae and Flos Chrysanthemi can treat wind-fire headache; Notopterygii Rhizoma, Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, Ramulus Cinnamomi and Radix Angelicae Sinensis can be added to treat arthralgia syndrome.
Third, it can dispel wind and stop spasm. Herbal Huiyan says that Chuanxiong "can dispel all wind and regulate all qi, although it enters the blood"; "Huainan Materia Medica" states that earthworm also governs "expelling wind" and "treating infantile convulsions". Astragalus membranaceus, Atractylodes macrocephala, Angelica sinensis and Radix Paeoniae Rubra can be used to treat limb paralysis. Adding periostracum cicadae, Bombyx Batryticatus and Uncaria rhynchophylla can treat children with acute fever and convulsion; Radix Astragali, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, etc. can be added to treat numbness of limbs after stroke; Notopterygii Rhizoma, Radix Saposhnikoviae, Bombyx Batryticatus, Uncaria rhynchophylla, etc. can be added to treat motion sickness.