Chuānxiōng shì zhōngyī chángyòng de huóxuè yàocái.
Sichuan lovage is a commonly used blood-activating herb in traditional medicine.
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history
芎 is not used on its own; it occurs only in herb names - chiefly 川芎 (Sichuan lovage) and the classical 芎藭. It joins the grass radical 艹 with the phonetic 弓.
register
Bound and technical; seen only in medicinal-herb names and pharmacology texts, not as a free word in speech.
