Herb

Suo tou (a loom shuttle)

梭头suo tou
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Recorded in Bencao Gangmu for loss of voice and stammering, pricking the palm to cause pain and restore speech, left for men and right for women.

Source

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu)卷三十八·器物类·梭头·主治

References
  • functions_en self-translated from 本草纲目 traditional_functions (public domain; the Chinese tf carries verbatim excerpt_hash citations). No modern work consulted.
  • WHO IST-TCM terminology-aligned for the English rendering.
  • public pharmacopoeia & physical facts (public-domain reference facts; no proprietary modern source).
Traditional functions

Classical source text (Chinese) — English summary above.

传统中医记载：主失音不语、病吃者，刺手心令痛即语，男左女右。

Citations
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷三十八·器物类·梭头·条名Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its classification.
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷三十八·器物类·梭头·主治Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.