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Dysentery-Stopping Decoction
備急千金要方湯劑
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Source
備急千金要方
Original text
Pinellia (1 sheng), Fresh Ginger (5 liang), Poria, Licorice, Dragon bone (each 2 liang), Aconite (1 liang), Ginseng, Coptis (each 3 liang), Jujube (12 pieces). The above nine ingredients, cut into pieces (㕮咀), boil with 8 sheng of water to obtain 3 sheng, divide into three doses.
Composition
Pinellia (1 sheng), Fresh Ginger (5 liang), Poria, Licorice, Dragon bone (each 2 liang), Aconite (1 liang), Ginseng, Coptis (each 3 liang), Jujube (12 pieces)
Preparation
The above nine ingredients, cut into pieces (㕮咀), boil with 8 sheng of water to obtain 3 sheng, divide into three doses.
Form
湯劑
Traditional indications
Hidden water below the heart and chest. It is suitable for patients with water-fluid retention below the heart that has become chronic and turned into a Yin pattern, with incessant diarrhea. It is also for those suffering from dysentery in whom various medicines have failed, as well as those with chronic gastroenteritis or chronic diarrhea and cold-deficient stomach and intestines.