Free and Easy Wanderer Powder

太平惠民和劑局方

-- Treats Blood deficiency and fatigue, five-center heat, limb pain, dizziness and heaviness of the head and eyes, palpitations, flushed cheeks, dry mouth and throat, fever and night sweats, reduced food intake and lethargy, as well as blood heat contending, irregular menstruation, distending pain in the umbilical and abdominal regions, and alternating chills and fever like malaria. It also treats unmarried women with blood weakness and Yin deficiency, disharmony between the Ying and Wei, phlegm cough with tidal fever, emaciation of the body, gradually developing into bone-steaming.

Bupleurum; Angelica Root (mixed with wine); White Peony Root (stir-fried with wine); Atractylodes (stir-fried with soil); Poria 1 qian; Licorice (honey-fried) 5 fen; add roasted ginger and mint, decoct. (Collected Explications of Medical Formulas)

Decoct six bowls of water down to two bowls; take warm before meals or at any time.

湯劑

Soothe the Liver and nourish Blood, fortify the Stomach and harmonize the Spleen.

Liver Qi stagnation and Blood deficiency pattern. Pain in both hypochondriac regions, alternating chills and fever, headache and dizziness, dry mouth and throat, fatigue and poor appetite, irregular menstruation, breast pain, pale red tongue, wiry and weak pulse.

Abdominal distention, belching, foreign-body sensation in the throat: combine with Pinellia and Magnolia Bark Decoction. -- Acne during menstruation, or Blood stasis amenorrhea, or infertility due to anovulation: combine with Cinnamon Twig and Poria Pill. -- Severe anemia, adolescent diabetes in girls: combine with Restore the Spleen Decoction. -- Patterns of Liver Qi stagnation, or breast pain, or breast masses, or depression patterns: combine with Bupleurum Decoction to Soothe the Liver. -- For patterns of this formula with strong inflammation or stagnant heat: add Moutan Cortex: 6, Gardenia: 6. -- For more severe Liver Qi stagnation with Qi stagnation and hypochondriac pain: add vinegar-processed Cyperus: 10, Curcuma: 10. -- Poor appetite: add scorched Medicated Leaven: 6, ginger-processed Pinellia: 10. -- Menstrual pain: add vinegar-processed Cyperus: 10, vinegar-processed Corydalis: 10, Leonurus: 20. -- Blood stasis with chest and hypochondriac pain; or breast masses: add vinegar-processed Sparganium: 6, vinegar-processed Zedoaria: 6. -- Hepatosplenomegaly: add vinegar-processed Turtle Shell: 15, Oyster Shell: 30, Madder: 10. -- Irregular menstruation: add Leonurus: 20, Salvia: 20. -- Dizziness and headache: add Chuanxiong: 20, Angelica Dahurica: 10. -- Early-stage cirrhosis: add vinegar-processed Turtle Shell: 15, Curcuma: 10, Codonopsis: 10, Cinnamon Twig: 10. -- Early chronic hepatitis with Liver Qi stagnation and Spleen deficiency, and Blood stasis hypochondriac pain: add vinegar-processed Sparganium: 6, vinegar-processed Zedoaria: 6, Curcuma: 10, Moutan Cortex: 10. -- Chronic cystic breast disease: add Dandelion: 30, Vaccaria Seed: 10, Curcuma: 10, Prunella: 15. -- Liver fibrosis: add Salvia: 30, Frankincense: 6. -- Breast lumps, breast nodules, early-stage breast cancer, scrofula, thyroid nodules: add Trichosanthes Fruit: 15, Zhejiang Fritillaria: 15, ginger-processed Pinellia: 10, prepared Arisaema: 10, Oyster Shell: 30, Cremastra Pseudobulb: 10.

Liver Qi stagnation is often caused by emotional frustration. During treatment, the patient must be advised to maintain an optimistic mood in order to obtain effects. Otherwise, though the medicine is Xiaoyao (Free and Easy), the person is not free and easy, and ultimately it will be of no help.