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Fuzi Lizhong Wan (Aconite Pill for Regulating the Middle)
太平惠民和劑局方湯劑
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Source
太平惠民和劑局方
Composition
Prepared Fuzi (remove skin and umbilicus), Ren Shen, prepared dried ginger, honey-fried Gancao, Baizhu. Grind the above into coarse powder. Take 4 da qian each time, with 1.5 cups of water; decoct to seven parts, remove dregs, and take at any time. If there is lockjaw, pry the mouth open and pour it in.
Preparation
Boil nine bowls of water down to three bowls; simmer over medium-low heat for about one and a half hours or more. Take one bowl warm before each of the three meals.
Form
湯劑
Function
Warm yang, tonify deficiency, and dispel cold.
Traditional indications
Right guan and chi pulses deep and tight or deep and weak; tongue body pale white, enlarged, and with tooth marks; various symptoms of spleen and Kidney Yang deficiency pattern.
Modifications
Upper heat and lower cold, recurrent oral inflammation and ulceration, insomnia: combine with Qianyang Fengsui Dan.
-- Chest pain, stabbing pain in the chest, palpitations, severe insomnia: combine with Xuefu Zhuyu Tang.
-- Wasting-thirst pattern, thirst, preference for warm drinks: add Tianhuafen: 15.
-- Severe yang deficiency, bloating: add Ziyou Rougui: 1.5.