Licorice and Aconite Decoction

金匱要略

When wind-dampness contends, with vexing pain in the joints, pulling pain and inability to flex and extend, pain severe on approach, sweating, shortness of breath, difficult urination, aversion to wind and unwillingness to remove clothing, or slight swelling of the body, Gancao Fuzi Tang governs it. (Jin Gui Yao Lue (Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet))

Gancao 2 liang, stir-baked; Fuzi 2 pieces, blast-roasted, remove bark, break; Baizhu 2 liang; Guizhi 4 liang, remove bark. The above four ingredients: with six sheng of water, decoct to obtain three sheng, remove the dregs, take one sheng warm, three times a day. At the first dose, if slight sweating is obtained, it resolves. If one can eat and sweating stops but restlessness returns, take five ge. If one fears that one sheng is too much, it is appropriate to take six or seven ge to begin. (Shang Han Za Bing Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Diseases))

Boil nine bowls of water down to three bowls; for Guizhi, Add later and decoct only 15 minutes. Take one bowl warm after each of the three meals.

湯劑

Warm the muscles and supplement the middle, benefit essence and Qi.

When wind-dampness contends, with joint pain, pulling pain and inability to extend and flex, pain severe on approach, sweating and shortness of breath, difficult urination, aversion to wind and unwillingness to remove clothing, or slight swelling of the body.

Avoid seaweed, Chinese cabbage, pork, raw scallion, peach, plum, sparrow meat, etc.