Pulse-Generating Beverage

醫學啓源

-- Tonifies insufficiency of original Qi in the lung. Yi Xue Qi Yuan, Lower Volume.

Ginseng five fen, Ophiopogon five fen, Schisandra seven pieces; decoct with long-flowing water, take without regard to time. (Nei Wai Shang Bian Huo Lun (Differentiation of Internal and External Injuries))

Decoct with long-flowing water, take without regard to time (modern usage: decoct with water and take warm).

湯劑

Tonify Qi and generate fluids, astringe Yin and stop sweating.

1. Summerheat with profuse sweating, consuming Qi and damaging Yin pattern. Fatigue, shortness of breath, disinclination to speak, dry throat and thirst, weak pulse. 2. Chronic cough with lung deficiency, dual injury of Qi and Yin pattern. Choking cough with lack of Qi, shortness of breath and spontaneous sweating, dry mouth and tongue, thin pulse.

Limb weakness; high uric acid: add Astragalus: 15, Licorice: 10. -- To withdraw from drugs: combine with Yi Gan San. -- Yang-deficient constitution, pale white swollen enlarged tongue with tooth marks: combine with Si Ni Tang. -- Kidney Yin insufficiency: combine with Liu Wei Di Huang Wan.

1. For severe and acute conditions: the dosage of the whole formula should be increased. 2. If external pathogens are not yet resolved, or summerheat disease with exuberant heat and Qi and Yin not yet damaged, it is not suitable to use. For chronic cough with lung deficiency, it should be used only when Yin is damaged and Qi is consumed, with pure deficiency and no pathogen.