Major Saposhnikovia Decoction

太平惠民和劑局方

Ligusticum chuanxiong and Prepared aconite (processed, peeled, with the umbilicus removed) each 45g; Prepared rehmannia (washed), Atractylodes macrocephala, Saposhnikovia (remove the reed), Angelica sinensis (washed, remove the reed, wine-soaked, roasted, fried), White peony, Astragalus, Eucommia (remove the coarse bark, fried until the threads break) each 60g; Notopterygium (remove the reed), Ginseng (remove the reed), Licorice (honey-fried), Achyranthes (remove the reed, wine-soaked; cut, lightly fried) each 30g

Grind the above into coarse powder. For each dose, take 15g, add 230 mL of water, 7 slices of fresh ginger, and 1 jujube, decoct together down to 180 mL; remove the dregs and take warm on an empty stomach.

湯劑

Dispel wind and eliminate dampness, Tonify Qi and invigorate blood. (Unblock blood movement, strengthen the bones and muscles.)

Unblocks blood vessels, strengthens the bones and muscles, eliminates cold-dampness, and expels cold qi. When dysentery persists for a long time and the legs become painful and weak, making walking impossible, it is called dysenteric wind. Swelling and pain of both knee joints, with the shins and lower legs withered, emaciated, and atrophied, and contracture preventing flexion and extension, is called crane's-knee wind. Crane's-knee wind, dysenteric wind, arthritis of the lower limbs, rheumatic arthritis, hemiplegia, beriberi, motor paralysis of the lower limbs, neuralgia.

Wind-cold-damp impediment: add Gentiana macrophylla and Atractylodes (Cangzhu). -- Swelling and pain of the knee joint: add Asarum and Stephania tetrandra. -- Blood stasis with pain like a锥 prick: add peach kernel and safflower.

Contraindicated in excess patterns that are not dual deficiency of Qi and Blood.