Pinellia and Dry Ginger Powder

金匱要略

-- Dry retching, vomiting, and spitting of foamy drool: Banxia Ganjiang San governs it. (Jin Gui Yao Lue (Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet))

Banxia and Ganjiang, equal parts. The above two ingredients: pound into a powder; take one fangcunbi (square-inch spoon) with one and a half sheng of jiangshui (fermented rice water), decoct to take seven ge, and take it all at once. (Shang Han Za Bing Lun)

Grind the above into a fine powder and mix. With two spoonfuls of vinegar, add water to one he and two spoonfuls. Boil 4 g of the medicinal powder. Take it in one spoonful and swallow all at once.

湯劑

Warm the stomach and stop vomiting.

Cold in the stomach, with dry retching, vomiting, and spitting of foamy drool.

For cold rheum cough with thin, copious phlegm: add Xixin 10. -- To treat epigastric focal distention and fullness from cold and heat mutually bound: add Huangqin 10 and Huanglian 10.

The medicinal nature of this formula is warm and drying; it may be used for cold phlegm and damp phlegm, but is contraindicated for heat phlegm and dry phlegm.