Pinellia and Dried Ginger Powder

金匱要略

-- Dry retching, counterflow vomiting, and vomiting of foamy saliva: Banxia Ganjiang San governs it. (Jin Gui Yao Lue (Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet))

Banxia and Ganjiang, equal parts. The two ingredients above: pound into powder; take one square-inch spoonful, with one and a half sheng of rice-washed water, decoct to obtain seven ge, and take in a single dose. (Shang Han Za Bing Lun)

Grind the above into a fine powder and mix. Using two spoonfuls of vinegar, mix with one ge and two spoonfuls of water. Decoct 4 g of the medicinal powder. Take one spoonful and administer in a single dose.

湯劑

Warm the stomach and stop vomiting.

There is cold in the stomach, with dry retching, counterflow vomiting, and vomiting of foamy saliva.

Cold rheum cough with thin, profuse phlegm: add Xixin:10. -- For epigastric stuffiness and fullness due to mutual binding of cold and heat: add Huangqin:10 and Huanglian:10.

This formula is warm and drying in nature; it can be used for cold phlegm and damp phlegm, but is contraindicated for hot phlegm and dry phlegm.