Liuhe Tang

太平惠民和劑局方

Shao Ren, Pinellia (processed by boiling seven times), Apricot kernel (peeled, tip removed), Ginseng, and honey-fried Licorice, 1 liang each. Red Poria (peeled), Agastache leaf (dust brushed off), White Hyacinth Bean (lightly stir-fried with ginger juice), and Papaya, 2 liang each. Mosla, Magnolia bark (processed with ginger juice), 4 liang each.

Chop the above medicinals. For each dose, take 4 qian (12g), 1.5 cups of water, 3 slices of fresh ginger, and 1 jujube; decoct until reduced to 80%, remove the dregs, and take at any time. (Modern usage: may also be prepared as a Decoction, decocted in water and taken orally; the dosage is determined according to the proportions of the original formula.)

湯劑

Dispel summerheat and resolve dampness, strengthen the Spleen and harmonize the Stomach.

In summer, improper diet, internal damage from raw and cold foods, and external contraction of summerheat pathogen. Symptoms include stuffiness and fullness in the chest and diaphragm, dizziness and headache, bodily fatigue, aversion to cold and fever, as well as cholera-like vomiting and diarrhea.

Damage from cold and summerheat-cold: add Perilla leaf and vinegar-processed Cyperus rotundus. -- Summerheat damage with thirst: add Gypsum. -- Alcohol intoxication or hangover: add Gegen and charred Shen Qu.

This formula is warm in nature; it is contraindicated for those with Damp-heat cholera.