Tuber Root of Common Turmeric Classic Formulas … Natural Herb Library

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Invigorates blood and moves qi ... Yu Jin is used for constrained pain in the chest, flanks, or menstruation when stasis and qi stagnation travel together.
Clears the Heart and opens the orifices ... classic use extends to agitation, clouded spirit, or phlegm-heat disturbing the Heart and gallbladder sphere.
Cools blood and benefits jaundice ... the tuber root is also used when heat affects the blood or when damp-heat impairs bile flow and causes yellowing.

Bai Jin Wan ... classical orifice-opening and phlegm-constraint strategy where Yu Jin helps clear constraint from the Heart-mind sphere.
Blood-stasis and qi-stagnation pain combinations with Xiang Fu, Chuan Xiong, or Yan Hu Suo ... a practical traditional lane for chest-rib and menstrual pain.
Jaundice pairings with Yin Chen and Zhi Zi ... classic logic when the clinical priority is clearing damp-heat and freeing constrained bile flow.

Traditional herbology gives Yu Jin the unusual combination of moving qi, moving blood, cooling blood, opening the orifices, and relieving jaundice.
Its split from Jiang Huang and E Zhu is fundamental ... turmeric-family medicinals are related, but they are not therapeutically interchangeable.