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Pulsatilla Decoction plus Licorice and Ass-Hide Glue

金匱要略湯劑
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Source
金匱要略
Original text
For postpartum diarrhea with extreme deficiency, Baitouweng Jia Gancao Ejiao Tang governs it. (Jin Gui Yao Lue (Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet))
Composition
Baitouweng (Pulsatilla Root), Gancao (Licorice), Ejiao (Donkey-hide Gelatin) each two liang; Qinpi (Fraxinus Bark), Huanglian (Coptis), Huangbai (Phellodendron Bark) each three liang. The above six ingredients, boil in seven sheng of water, reduce to two and a half sheng, add the gelatin and let it dissolve completely, divide into three warm doses. (Shanghan Zabing Lun)
Preparation
Boil in seven sheng of water, reduce to two and a half sheng, add the gelatin and let it dissolve completely, divide into three warm doses.
Form
湯劑
Function
Clear heat and treat dysentery, tonify Qi and nourish blood.
Traditional indications
Diarrhea, or dysentery with pus and blood, tenesmus, abdominal pain, bitter taste in the mouth, thirst with desire to drink, heaviness and困 in the limbs, lusterless complexion, dry and withered skin, dizziness, red tongue, yellow or greasy coating, thin rapid or deep weak pulse.