Effect
Clear heat, dredge meridians and alleviate pain.
Ingredients
Gypsum Fibrosum (Shigao) 50 g,
Rhizoma Anemarrhenae (Zhimu) 18 g,
Zhi Gan Cao (Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata) 3 g,
Jing Mi (Semen Oryzae Sativae) 6 g,
Ramulus Cinnamomi (Guizhi) 5~9 g.
Explanation
Shi Gao: The principal drug, being pungent and sweet in flavor and very cold in nature, purging heat in the lung and stomach, eliminating vexation.
Zhi Mu: Purging heat in the lung and stomach, being moisture in nature to moisten dryness.
Gan Cao and Jing Mi: Benifiting the stomach, protecting body fluids from being impaired, letting prescriptions very cold in nature not injure the spleen and stomach.
Gui Zhi: Expelling pathogenic factors from the muscles and skin by means of diaphoresis, warming the channels to dispel pathogenic cold.
Administration
Decocted in water for oral dose to be taken twice.