Musk, a name in traditional Chinese medicine. It is the dried secretion from the mature male scent sacs of animals in the genus Moschus of the Cervidae family: the forest musk deer (Moschus berezovskii Flerov), the Przewalski’s musk deer (M. sifanicus Przewalski), or the original musk deer (M. moschiferus Linnaeus). It has the effects of opening the orifices and reviving the spirit, invigorating blood circulation and unblocking the meridians, and reducing swelling and relieving pain.It is primarily used to treat mental confusion due to closed-orifice syndrome, swollen and toxic sores, scrofula and phlegm nodules, sore throat, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, masses and masses, sudden pain in the chest and abdomen, headaches, trauma, arthralgia caused by wind, cold, and dampness, difficult labor, stillbirth, and retained placenta.