Yes I am well aware of Reich and Lowen. As I am in therapy for trauma I have concluded after many experiments that bioenergetics is not complete, and in case of trauma is not very helpful.
The way to heal trauma is to create a safe environment, and for the individual to gradually also come out of dissociation that comes not only from drugs but also anger... one has to put the shield down so to speak.. to be able to regain the full range of physical and emotional sensitivity and feel alive in this world.
With that said, it is one year of self exercises from a bioenergetic book that helped me become aware of the anger I had repressed much of my life. And that was the necessary step to go and reach out for assistance. But once I started therapy the exercises just made things more difficult.
I found the same with chinese plants. Some plants clearly have noticable effects on emotional states, such as Bupleurum, Cyperus, ... by helping release constriction in the solar plexus / liver area. However afterm onths of experimenting with them and in the context of trauma, I can only conclude that it made things more difficult.
In the end, it is consciousness that heals. So no amount of plants of bioenergetics sexercise can heal trauma. That's because they are still a way of controlling experience, while healing is the opposite direction: to release control, to allow everything to bubble up in awareness. Control comes from the left hemisphere, and is precisely what created the suffering in the first place.