Bupleurum and Poria Decoction

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Chai Hu 15g, Huang Qin 10g, Sheng Jiang 10g, Jiang Ban Xia 10g, Ren Shen 10g, Da Zao 30g, Zhi Gan Cao 10g, Zhu Ling 15g, Fu Ling 15g, Bai Zhu 15g, Ze Xie 20g, Gui Zhi 10g

Decoct nine bowls of water down to three bowls; Gui Zhi: Add later, decoct for only 15 minutes; total decoction about one and a half hours. Divide into three warm doses.

湯劑

Eliminate cold and dispel heat, promote water and Resolve Phlegm.

Residual heat of Cold Damage, stuffiness and fullness in the chest and hypochondrium, frequent vomiting, vexing thirst, difficult urination, or vomiting and diarrhea after drinking water, inability to sleep, and wasting-thirst. The pulse is stringy; the tongue coating is white, thick, and greasy or watery and slippery.

Difficult urination and painful urination: combine with Zhu Ling Tang. -- Dampness is heavy, and skin disease mainly affects the lower half of the body: add Yi Yi Ren 30. -- Damp-heat jaundice with dampness predominating, or high blood lipids, or high uric acid: add Yin Chen Hao 30. -- Cold-damp: add Cang Zhu 10. -- Scrotal edema: add Che Qian Zi 6 and Mu Tong 6. -- Kidney Yang deficiency: add Pao Fu Zi 10. -- Headache, discomfort of the neck, shoulders, and back, or high blood pressure, in alcohol abusers: add Ge Gen 20. -- Lower back and leg pain, high blood pressure: add Huai Niu Xi 10. -- Eye disease, excessively high intraocular pressure: add Che Qian Zi 6 and Huai Niu Xi 6.