Agastache Powder to Rectify the Qi

太平惠民和劑局方

-- Treats cold damage headache, aversion to cold and high fever, panting and cough, five taxations and seven injuries, eight kinds of wind-Phlegm, five kinds of diaphragmatic Qi, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, regurgitation and nausea/vomiting, Qi diarrhea and cholera-like sudden turmoil, rumbling due to Zang-Fu organ deficiency, miasmic malaria from mountain mists, generalized deficiency swelling; in women, prepartum and postpartum blood-Qi stabbing pain; in children, gan damage/malnutrition—all are suitable for treatment.

Huoxiang, Zisu, Baizhi, Dafupi, Fuling, three liang each; Baizhu (fried with soil), Chenpi, Banxiaqu; Houpo (processed with ginger), Jiegeng, two liang each; Zhi Gancao, one liang.

Grind the above into a fine powder. Take five qian each time; add one cup of water, three slices of ginger, and one jujube, decoct together down to seven parts, and take warm. If sweating is desired, cover with clothing and blankets and take a second decoction as well. (Modern usage: as a Powder, take 15 g each time, taken with decoction made from fresh ginger and jujube; or as a Decoction, add fresh ginger and jujube and decoct in water for oral administration, with the amount determined according to the proportions of the original formula.)

湯劑

Release the exterior and transform Damp, Regulate Qi and harmonize the middle.

Pattern of externally contracted Wind-Cold with internal damage from food and Damp stagnation. Symptoms include fever and aversion to cold, headache, heaviness of the body, fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm, pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, nausea and vomiting, borborygmus and diarrhea, white greasy tongue coating, and a floating slippery pulse.

More Heat, abdominal pain and diarrhea/dysentery: add Huanglian:10, Huangqin:10. -- Heavy Dampness: add Yiyiren:30, Cangzhu:10. -- Severe Cold: add prepared Fuzi:10, Ganjiang:10. -- Abdominal pain: add Baishao:10. -- With concomitant Qi stagnation and epigastric/abdominal distention and pain: add Muxiang:10, vinegar-processed Yanhusuo:10.

For Damp-heat cholera-like vomiting and diarrhea, this formula is not suitable. In all cases with thirst and a yellow, dry tongue coating, it should not be used.