Knee Pain

TCM Herbs Associated With Knee Pain

Knee Pain Is Associated With 8 TCM Herbs

Tonify liver and kidneys, strengthen sinews and bones - weak, painful knees and lower back, fatigue, frequent urination. Promotes smooth flow of qi and blood circulation. Calms the fetus - for cold deficient kidney patterns with bleeding during pregnancy, prevents miscarriages from deficiency. R…

Dispels wind-cold-damp bi such as stiff joints, lower back pain, sore knees, cramping of muscles and sinews. Disperses cold and alleviates pain - epigastric and abdominal pain and diarrhea due to cold in the spleen and stomach.

Invigorates blood, expels blood stasis - dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, lochioschesis. Strengthens the sinews, bones, and joints - lower back and knee issues due to deficiency (tonifies the liver and kidneys). Clears damp heat in the lower burner - damp-heat pouring downward manifesting as back and kn…

Drains damp heat from the lower jiao - thick-yellow leukorrhea, foul-smelling diarrhea, dysentery; damp-heat pouring downward or hot leg qi - red, swollen, painful knees, legs, and/or feet; damp-heat jaundice. Drains kidney fire with signs of yin deficiency - steaming bone disorder, night sweats, …

Promotes the movement of blood, tonify the blood - blood deficiency patterns such as irregular menses, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, accompanied with abdominal pain. Invigorate the channels, relax the sinews - numbness of the extremities, lower back pain, knee pain, damp bi-syndrome, w/blood deficienc…

Promotes movement of qi and blood, opens middle burner and unblocks the channels - irregular or scanty menses, abdominal pain or distention, pain and stiffness in the lower back and knees (wind-damp painful obstruction). Promotes urination - edema with difficult urination.

Tonify kidneys, strengthen yang - fatigue, impotence, cold limbs, lightheadedness, lower back and knee pain, tinnitus, frequent and clear urine. Tonify the governing vessel, augments essence and blood, strengthens sinews and bones - children with mental/physical developmental issues. Regulates th…

Tonify kidney yang - impotence, spermatorrhea, frequent urination, poor memory, painful and cold lower back and knees. Expel wind-damp, cold - spasms, cramps, joint pain, numbness in limbs. Strengthen yin and yang, harnesses liver yang rising - dizziness, low back pain, irregular menses from live…