Bamboo Leaf Decoction

金匱要略

Postpartum wind-strike, fever, flushed face, wheezing and headache: Zhu Ye Tang governs it. (Jin Gui Yao Lue (Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet))

Zhu Ye one handful, Ge Gen three liang, Fang Feng, Jie Geng, Gui Zhi, Ren Shen, Gan Cao each one liang, Fu Zi one piece (prepared), Da Zao fifteen pieces, Sheng Jiang five liang. The above ten ingredients, with one dou of water, boil to obtain two and a half sheng, divide into three warm doses, cover warmly to cause sweating. If the neck and nape are stiff, use one large Fu Zi, break it into pieces the size of beans, decoct in the medicinal liquid and remove the foam. If vomiting, add Ban Xia half sheng, washed. (Shang Han Za Bing Lun)

With one dou of water, boil to obtain two and a half sheng, divide into three warm doses. Keep warm and covered to promote sweating. (Modern usage: boil nine bowls of water down to three bowls; take one bowl warm after each of the three meals. Keep warm and covered to promote sweating.)

湯劑

Clear wind-heat in the Taiyang and Yangming, warm the deficiency-cold of the spleen.

Postpartum wind-strike, fever, flushed face, wheezing and headache.

If vomiting: add ginger-processed Ban Xia: 10.