Inner Formulas JG Flashcards
(115 cards)
Gancao Ganjiang Tang
When in cold damage, the pulse is floating and (there is) spontaneous sweating, frequent urination, heart vexation, mild aversion to cold, and hypertonicity of the feet, but Guizhi Tang is given in order to attack the exterior, there is an error. If (the person) is given this formula, there will be reversal, a dryness in the throat, vexation and agitation, and counterflow vomiting, (so one should use) Gancao Ganjiang Tang to restore yang. If a counterflow (patient) recovers, and the feet become warm, one can then use Shaoyao Gancao Tang and the feet will then (be able to) stretch. If the stomach qi is disharmonious and (there is) delirious speech, give a little Tiaowei Chengqi Tang. If sweating has been promoted repeatedly, and red hot needling was used, Sini Tang governs. (SHL29)
For lung withering and spitting up of slime and foam, without coughing, but the person is not thirsty, there must be incontinence and frequent urination. Why is that? Because the upper is deficient and cannot control the lower, for this is cold in the lung, with imperative dizziness, and copious slime and saliva, use Gancao Ganjiang Tang to warm. (JG 7)
Gancao Ganjiang Tang
Ganjiang 6g
Zhigancao 12g
Banxia Ganjiang San
For dry heaves, adverse flow and vomiting, and vomiting of slime and foam, Banxia Ganjiang San governs. (JG 17)
Banxia Ganjiang San
Banxia 9g
Ganjiang 9g
Ling Gan Wuwei Jiang Xin Tang
Now that the surging qi has been lowered, and there adversely is again coughing, with fullness of chest, use Gui Ling Wuwei Gancao Tang minus Gui, plus Ganjiang, Xixin, to treat the coughing and fullness. (JG12)
Ling Gan Wuwei Jiang Xin Tang
Fuling 12g
Gancao 9g
Wuweizi 12g
Ganjiang 9g
Xixin 9g
Shenzhuo Tang
In Kidney Stickiness disease, the person’s body feels heavy, and there is cold in the lower back, as if sitting in water, with the body [displaying] water symptoms, there adversely is no thirst, urination is smooth, food intake is as before, so the disease is in the lower
burner, and there is taxation and sweating, and inside the clothes there is cold dampness, which was contracted over prolonged periods of time, there is cold below the waist, and the abdomen feels heavy as if carrying a five-thousand-coin-heavy belt. For Gan Jiang Ling Zhu Tang governs. (JG 11)
Shenzhuo Tang
Ganjiang 12g
Fuling 12g
Baizhu 6g
Gancao 6g
Dahuang Fuzi Tang
Subcostal pain on the sides, with fever, and a tight and wiry pulse, is cold, for it should be purged with warm herbs, and Dahuang Fuzi Tang is indicated. (JG 10)
Dahuang Fuzi Tang
Dahuang 9g
Fuzi 15g
Xixin 6g
Guizhi Qu Shao Jia Mahuang Fuzi Xixin Tang
In the qi layer, with denseness under the heart the size of a dish, and edges like an overturned cup, it is the product of water rheum, [and] Guizhi Qu Shao Jia Mahuang Fuzi Xixin Tang governs. (JG14)
Guizhi Qu Shao Jia Mahuang Fuzi Xixin Tang
Guizhi 9g
Shengjiang 9g
Dazao 6g
Gancao 6g
Mahuang 6g
Fuzi 6g
Xixin 6g
Guizhi Shaoyao Zhimu Tang
When there is pain of all extremities and joints, and the body is deteriorated, with the feet swollen as if they are about to fall off, with dizziness, shortness of breath, and warm [waves] with desire to vomit, then Guizhi Shaoyao Zhimu Tang governs. (JG5)
Guizhi Shaoyao Zhimu Tang
Guizhi 12g
Baishao 9g
Zhimu 12g
Baizhu 15g
Shengjiang 15g
Fangfeng 12g
Mahuang 6g
Fuzi 12g
Gancao 6g
Fuzi Gengmi Tang
When there is cold qi in the abdomen, wit thunderous sounds and cutting pains, along with reversal fullness in chest and ribs, and vomiting, Fuzi Gengmi Tang governs. (JG 10)
Fuzi Gengmi Tang
Fuzi 6g
Banxia 12g
Gengmi 12g
Dazao 6g
Gancao 3g
Xuanfuhua Tang
In liver stickiness, the person enjoys being trampled on the chest, and when it hasn’t occurred yet, they want to only drink hot [fluids], Xanfuhua Tang governs. (JG11)
Xuanfuhua Tang
Xuanfuhua 9g
Congbai 3g
Qiancaogen 3g
Zexie Tang
When there is poking rheum under the heart, and the person suffers from oppression and dizziness, Zexie Tang governs. (JG12)
Zexie Tang
Zexie 15g
Baizhu 6g
Shenqi Wan
For deficiency taxation with lower back pain, urgent tightness in the lower abdomen, and difficult urination, Bawei Shenqi Wan governs. (JG 6)
For consumptive thirst in men, but adversely with increased urination, for when one drinks one liter, one urinates one liter, Shenqi Wan governs. (JG13)
Shenqi Wan
Shengdihuang 24g
Shanyao 12g
Shanzhuyu 12g
Fuling 9g
Zexie 9g
Mudanpi 9g
Fuzi 3g 9/12g
Guizhi 3g 9/12g
Houpo San Wu Tang
For pain with closure, Houpo Sanwu Tang governs. (JG 10)
Houpo San Wu Tang
Houpo 24g
Dahuang 12g
Zhishi 6g
Houpo Qi Wu Tang
In the disease of Abdominal Fullness, when there is fever for ten days, and a floating pulse that is rapid, but food intake is as normal, then Houpo Qiwu Tang governs. (JGYL10)
Houpo Qi Wu Tang
Guizhi 6g
Shengjiang 15g
Houpo 24g
Dahuang 9g
Zhishi 6g
Dazao 6g
Gancao 9g
Houpo Mahuang Tang
For cough with a floating pulse, Houpo Mahuang Tang governs. (JG7)
Houpo Mahuang Tang
Houpo 15
Mahuang 12g
Shigao 48g
Banxia 12g
Xingren 12g
Ganjiang 6g
Wuweizi 12g
Xixin 6g
Fuxiaomai 24g
Dahuang Mudanpi Tang
For intestinal abscess, with swelling and glomus in the lower abdomen, which hurts upon pressure as in stranguria, but urination is balanced, and periodically there is fever, spontaneous sweating, and again aversion to cold, for if the pulse is tight and slow, the pus is not yet created, and it can be purged, for there should be blood. When the pulse is flooding and rapid, the pus is already created, and it cannot be purged, for Dahuang Mudanpi Tang governs. (JG 18)
Dahuang Mudanpi Tang
Dahuang 12g
Mangxiao 9g
Mudanpi 3g
Taoren 9g
Dongguaren 12g
Dahuang Gancao Tang
When vomiting immediately upon ingestion food, Dahuang Gancao Tang governs. (JG 17)
Dahuang Gancao Tang
Dahuang 12g
Gancao 3g
Taohe Chengqi Tang (see Mangxiao)
Dahuang Zhechong Wan
For the five taxations with extreme deficiency and emaciation. There is abdominal fullness but inability to eat, [this is due to] Damage by Food, Damage by Worry, Damage by Drink, Bedroom Damage, Damage by Hunger, Damage by Taxation, and Damage to Protective and Nutritive Qi of Channels and Collaterals, there internally is dry blood, with complex scaling skin of the skin, dark black [around the] eyes. To moderate the center and supplement deficiency, Dahuang Zhechong Wan governs. (JG6)
Dahuang Zhechong Wan
Dahuang 12g
Shengdi 12g
Taoren 9g
Xingren 9g
Mangchong 9g
Shuizhi 9g
Qicao 9g
Zhechong 6g
Baishao 3g
Huangqin 3g
Gancao 3g
Maimendong Tang
In rebellion of fire with ascent of qi, there is inhibition of the throat, [and so] to stop the rebellion and descend qi, Maimendong Tang governs. (JG7)
Maimendong Tang
Maimendong 168g
Renshen 9g
Banxia 24g
Gengmi 9g
Dazao 6g
Gancao 6g
Wenjing Tang
For women of about fifty, with diseases of incessant diarrhea of over ten times a day, fever that starts at dusk, internal urgency in the lower abdomen, abdominal bloating, vexing heat in the hand palms, and dry parched lips, what is this? The master says: this disease belongs to the category of below the belt disorders, why? For at one point in middelivery, blood stasis has stayed in the abdomen without being expelled. How does one know? Because the lips and mouth are dry and parched, that’s why. For this is governed by Wenjing Tang. (JG 22)
Wenjing Tang
Wuzhuyu 9g
Danggui 6g
Baishao 6g
Chuanxiong 6g
Guizhi 6g
Maimendong 24g
Ejiao 6g
Renshen 6g
Mudanpi 6g
Banxia 12g
Shengjiang 6g
Gancao 6g
Wuling San
In Taiyang disease, after sweating was promoted, there is copious sweating, and the stomach is dry, so there is restlessness and agitation with inability to attain sleep, when one desires to drink water, give small amounts, allowing the stomach to be harmonious and so there will be curation. If the pulse is floating, and inhibited urination, with mild fever and consumptive thirst, then Wuling San governs. (SHL71)
After sweat promotion, the pulse is floating and rapid, and there is vexing thirst, Wuling San governs. (SHL72)
In Wind Strike with fever, which after six or seven days does not resolve and is accompanied by vexation, then there is an exterior-interior pattern, for there is thirst with desire to drink, but when water enters the mouth, there is vomiting, for this is called Water reversal, and Wuling San governs. (SHL74)
When in sudden turmoil, (there is) headache, heat effusion, and generalized pain, (if there is) more heat and (the patient) desires to drink water, Wuling San governs; (but if there is) more cold and (the patient) does not drink water, Lizhong Wan governs. (SHL386)
If a person is thin and has pulsations below the umbilicus, with spitting of foamy saliva and vertigo, [then] this is water, [and] Wuling San governs. (JG12)
Wuling San
Guizhi 6g
Baizhu 9g
Fuling 9g
Zhuling 9g
Zexie 15g
Fuling Zexie Tang
In stomach reversal, there is vomiting with thirst, and the desire to drink water, Fuzling Zexie Tang governs. (JG17)
Fuling Zexie Tang
Fuling 24g
Zexie 12g
Shengjiang 12g
Baizhu 9g
Guizhi 6g
Gancao 6g
Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang
When in cold damage, after vomiting or precipitation, there is counterflow fullness below the heart, the qi surges upward to the chest, the person experiences dizzy head upon standing, and the pulse is sunken and tight, if sweating is promoted, the channels will be stirred and there will be quivering and trembling then Fuling Guizhi Baizhu Gancao Tang governs. (SHL 67)
When there is phlegm rheum below the heart, there is poking fullness in chest and ribs, and dizzy vision, then Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang governs. (JG12)
In shortness of breath with mild rheum, it should be expelled through urination, and Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang governs; Shenqi Wan also governs. (JG12)
Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang
Fuling 12g
Guizhi 9g
Baizhu 6g
Zhigancao 6g
Xiao Banxia Jia Fuling Tang
For sudden vomiting, with glomus under the heart, there is water in the diaphragm, vertigo and palpitations, Xiao Banxia Jia Fuling Tang governs. (JG12)
Xiao Banxia Jia Fuling Tang
Banxia 24g
Shengjiang 12g
Fuling 9g
Fuling Xingren Gancao Tang
In Chest Obstruction, there is qi stuffiness in the chest, with shortness of breath, Fuling Xingren Gancao Tang governs; and Ju Zhi Jiang Tang also governs. (JG9)
Fuling Xingren Gancao Tang
Fuling 9g
Xingren 9g
Gancao 3g