White Tiger Decoction

傷寒論

-- Cold damage, pulse floating and slippery; this is because there is heat in the exterior and cold in the interior; Bai Hu Tang governs it. (Shang Han Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage)) -- Triple Yang combined disease, abdominal fullness, heavy body, difficulty turning from side to side, loss of sensation in the mouth and dusty face, delirious speech and involuntary urination. If sweating is induced, then delirious speech; if purgation is used, then sweat appears on the forehead, and the hands and feet are cold. If there is spontaneous sweating, Bai Hu Tang governs it. (Shang Han Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage)) -- Cold damage, pulse slippery and cold limbs; this is heat in the interior; Bai Hu Tang governs it. (Shang Han Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage))

Gypsum one jin, Anemarrhena six liang, Licorice two liang, polished rice six ge. The above four ingredients, with water one dou, boil until the rice is cooked and the decoction is formed; remove the dregs. Take warm one sheng, three times daily.

The above four ingredients, with water one dou, boil until the rice is cooked and the decoction is formed; remove the dregs, take warm one sheng, three times daily. (Modern usage: nine bowls of water decocted to three bowls; after the three meals, take one bowl warm each time.)

湯劑

Clear heat and generate fluids.

Yangming heat exuberance, dry mouth and tongue, vexing thirst with a desire to drink, red face and aversion to heat, profuse sweating, pulse surging and forceful or slippery and rapid.

Repeated fever, with heavy dampness and white greasy coating: add Cang Zhu:10, Fu Ling:10. -- Qi deficiency, severe thirst, or wasting-thirst disorder: add American Ginseng:10. -- Skin disease with macules: add Xuan Shen:10. -- Warm epidemic with thirst: add Jin Yin Hua:10, Lian Qiao:10. -- Summerheat with thirst: add Huang Qin:10, Huang Lian:10. -- High fever with vexing thirst, clouded spirit and delirious speech, convulsions, etc.: add Ling Yang Jiao:3, Gou Teng:10. -- Thirst with sweating, constipation, dark scanty urine: add Da Huang:6, Mang Xiao:6. -- Wasting-thirst disorder with vexing thirst and desire to drink, excessive eating and easy hunger, forceful pulse, belonging to stomach heat: add Tian Hua Fen:10, Lu Gen:10, Sheng Di Huang:15, Mai Men Dong:10. -- Japanese B encephalitis with qi-aspect pattern: add Jin Yin Hua:10, Lian Qiao:10, Lu Gen:10, Da Qing Ye:10, Ban Lan Gen:10, Huang Qin:10. -- Diabetes or urinary sugar: add Bei Sha Shen:10, Tian Hua Fen:10. -- Swollen and painful gums, vexing thirst and dry stool: add Chuan Niu Xi:10, Xuan Shen:10.

The use of this formula should be based on patterns such as Very hot, profuse sweating, severe thirst, and a large forceful pulse. If the exterior pattern is not yet resolved with fever and no sweating and no thirst, or fever without vexing thirst, or profuse sweating with pale complexion, or a pulse that is large but weak on deep pressure, etc., it is not suitable to use.