Effect
Tonify qi and relieve exterior syndrome, eliminate dampness and harmonize the stomach.
Indications
Food-denying dysentery, fever with aversion to cold, immediate vomiting of ingested
food, aches in the limbs, whitish and slimy coating on the tongue, soft and floating
pulse.
Ingredients
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Poria (Fuling) 9 g,
Radix Glycyrrhizae (Gancao) 9 g,
Radix Peucedani (Qianhu) 9 g,
Chuanxiong (Rhizoma Chuanxiong) 9 g,
Rhizoma et Radix Notopterygii (Qianghuo) 9 g,
Duhuo (Radix Angelicae Pubescentis) 9 g,
Radix Platycodi (Jiegeng) 9 g,
Zhi Qiao 9 g,
Radix Bupleuri (Chaihu) 9 g,
Chen Cang Mi 9 g,
Rhizoma Zingiberis (Shengjiang) 9 g,
Herba Menthae (Bohe) 9 g.
Explanation
Qiang Huo and Du Huo: The principal drugs, being pungent and bitter in flavor and warm
in nature, removing wind, cold and dampness pathogens from the whole body.
Chuan Xiong: Promoting the circulation of blood, dispersing pathogenic wind.
Chai Hu: Being pungent in flavor and dispersing in nature, expelling the pathogens
from the muscles and skin, aiding Qiang Huo and Du Huo in driving away exo-pathogens,
relieving pain.
Zhi Qiao: Descending Qi.
Jie Geng: Promoting the flow of the lung-Qi.
Qian Hu: Removing phlegm.
Fu Ling: Eliminating dampness.
Gan Cao: Tempering the actions of all the other ingredients, invigorating Qi,
regulating the stomach.
Sheng Jiang and Bo He: Expelling wind pathogen.
Ren Shen: Invigorating Qi to expel pathogens.
Administration
Decocted in water for oral dose to be taken twice.