Ting Hu Suo Corydalis Root

Traditional Use

Primary Actions

• Invigorates Blood, moves qi, and relieves pain ... Ting Hu Suo stays within the classic Yan Hu Suo pain-herb lane, especially when fixed pain and distention show both qi stagnation and blood stasis.
• Relieves chest, flank, epigastric, and abdominal pain ... it is widely used for digestive, menstrual, and constrained Liver-type pain patterns rather than for vague deficiency aches.
• Addresses traumatic and gynecologic pain ... trade-name variation does not change the core materia medica identity, so the herb still belongs in dysmenorrhea, postpartum stasis, and injury-related pain formulas.

Secondary Actions

• This page preserves the Ting Hu Suo naming lane as a raw trade-lot sibling of the canonical `corydalis-tuber` record rather than pretending it is a different species or a different medicinal function.
• The associated illustration notes emphasize a larger clustered raw tuber lot, which is useful for merchandising accuracy but does not justify separate pharmacology.

Classic Formulas

• Jin Ling Zi San ... classic pairing with Chuan Lian Zi for hypochondriac, epigastric, and lower-abdominal pain from constrained Liver qi with heat or stasis.
• Yan Hu Suo Zhi Tong Wan ... pain-formula tradition built directly around corydalis for generalized stagnation pain.
• Shao Fu Zhu Yu Tang and related gynecologic stasis formulas ... contexts where corydalis helps move and relieve lower-abdominal pain.

Classical References

• Traditional materia medica consistently treats Yan Hu Suo and its close naming variants as premier analgesic herbs that move both qi and blood.
• Editorially, the key point is that Ting Hu Suo belongs to the same Corydalis yanhusuo root-tuber stream as Yan Hu Suo, Xuan Hu, and Yuan Hu trade labels.