Rhubarb and Licorice Decoction

金匱要略湯劑

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Source

金匱要略

Original text

If one vomits immediately after eating, Da Huang Gan Cao Tang governs it. (Jin Gui Yao Lue (Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet))

Composition

Rhubarb four liang, Licorice one liang. For the above two ingredients, use three sheng of water, boil to reduce to one sheng, divide and take warm in two doses. (Shang Han Za Bing Lun)

Preparation

Use three sheng of water, boil to reduce to one sheng, divide and take warm in two doses.

Form

湯劑

Function

Unblock the bowels and stop vomiting.

Traditional indications

Accumulated heat in the stomach and intestines, with turbid and putrid qi rebelling upward, vomiting immediately after eating, with urgent and forceful vomiting, or constipation with no passage, yellow coating, and a slippery, excess pulse.

Modifications

If there is yang deficiency, with a pale, enlarged, tender tongue with tooth marks and slippery watery coating: add Prepared Aconite (Pao Fu Zi): 10.