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Four Gentlemen Decoction for Asthma

勿誤藥室方函口訣湯劑
Source-based · educational reference
Source
勿誤藥室方函口訣
Composition
Codonopsis and White Atractylodes each 4 g, prepared Licorice 3 g, Angelica 2.5 g, Tangerine peel, Poria, Magnolia bark, Perilla seed, Amomum, and White mulberry root bark each 2 g, Agarwood and Aucklandia each 1.5 g, 1 slice ginger, 2 jujubes
Preparation
Boil six bowls of water down to two bowls; take one bowl warm after breakfast and dinner respectively.
Form
湯劑
Traditional indications
Weak constitution and lack of strength, weak gastrointestinal tract, bronchial asthma. For those with weak stomach and intestines suffering from wheezing and dyspnea with severe symptoms, use it. For those who feel stomach discomfort after taking other medicines and cannot retain them, and for terminal pulmonary tuberculosis, emphysema, pulmonary edema, bronchial asthma, bronchiectasis, etc., when complicated by gastric disturbance and severe symptoms, it may also be applied.