Xuan Hu Su Corydalis Root

Traditional Use

Primary Actions

• Invigorates Blood, moves qi, and relieves pain ... Xuan Hu Su keeps the classic corydalis role for stagnation pain in the chest, flanks, epigastrium, and lower abdomen.
• Relieves menstrual, digestive, and traumatic pain ... the herb remains valuable when pain is fixed, distending, or clearly tied to obstructed movement.
• Complements formula-based pain treatment ... corydalis is rarely the whole story, but it is often the herb that makes a stagnation-pain prescription feel clinically direct.

Secondary Actions

• This page preserves the Xuan Hu Su naming lane and a medium raw-tuber lot with more exposed cut faces, which helps the illustrated inventory stay distinct from the Ting and Yuan siblings.
• Older and later naming traditions overlap heavily here, so the editorial goal is alias accuracy without implying species-level differences.

Classic Formulas

• Jin Ling Zi San ... enduring corydalis pairing for constrained hypochondriac and epigastric pain.
• Yan Hu Suo Zhi Tong Wan ... direct pain-relief formula lineage built around corydalis.
• Shao Fu Zhu Yu Tang and related blood-stasis combinations ... settings where corydalis supports movement and pain relief in the lower abdomen.

Classical References

• The classical reputation of corydalis rests on moving both qi and blood, a combination that explains its wide pain range.
• Xuan Hu Su belongs to that same raw Corydalis yanhusuo tuber tradition and should not be separated into a fictional second herb.