Warm Interior - Formulas Flashcards
(12 cards)
Formula Functions:
1. Warms MJ and dispels cold
2.Tonifies qi and strengthens the spleen
Diagnosis: Deficient cold of the spleen and stomach
Symptoms: Abdominal pain with preference to warmth and pressure, diarrhea with watery stool, no thirst, nausea and vomiting, epigastric distention, loss of appetite, pale tongue with white coating, deep and slow or deep and thready pulse; Or loss of blood with yang deficiency; or chronic infantile convulsion or predilection for spitting saliva after recovery from illness; or chest bi syndrome due to deficient cold of MJ
Applications: Chronic gastritis, gastroduodenal ulcer, chronic colitis, indigestion, gastric dilatation, and gastroptosia
Li Zhong Wan/
Regulate the Middle Pill:
Deficient cold of the spleen and stomach
Ingredients
1.GanJiang (RhizomaZingiberisOfficinalis)
2.Ren Shen (Radix Ginseng)
3.BaiZhu(RhizomaAtractylodisMacrocephalae)
4.ZhiGanCao (Honey-fried Radix Glycyrrhizae)
Preparation:
1. Pill, form into pill with honey
2. Decoction
Contraindication
1.Exterior heat
2.Yin deficient heat
Li Zhong Wan/
Regulate the Middle Pill:
Deficient cold of the spleen and stomach
Formula Functions
1.Warms the MJ and tonifies qi
2. Descents the rebellious qi and stops vomiting
Diagnosis & Symptoms
1.Deficient cold of stomach: Vomiting immediately after eating, fullness and distention in the chest and epigastrium, and acid regurgitation with or without epigastric pain, deep/thready/tense pulse
2.Headache of Jue-yin channel: Nausea or spitting of clear fluids with HA at the vertex
3.Cold attacking MJ: Vomiting and diarrhea with cold hands and feet and severe irritability, deep/thready pulse
Applications: Acute or chronic gastritis, gastroduodenal ulcer, hepatitis, migraine, Meniere’s disease
Wu Zhu Yu Tang/ EvodiaDecoction:
Cold in MJor cold in ST/LV
Ingredients
1.Wu ZhuYu (FructusEvodiaeRutaecarpae)
2.Ren Shen (Radix Ginseng)
3.Sheng Jiang (RhizomaZingiberisRecens)
4.Da Zao(FructusZizyphiJujubae)
Contraindication & Caution
1.Stomach pain or vomiting due to heat
2.For severe vomiting, take cold decoction to prevent vomiting of herb tea. In a few patients may experience a more severe vomiting after taking the decoction; it will subside by itself in half an hour. The patients should advised to take a rest after taking the tea to alleviate the reaction
Formula Functions
1. Warms and tonifies MJ
2. Moderates spasm and relieves pain
Diagnosis:
Abdominal pain due to deficient cold
Fever due to yang deficiency
Symptoms: Abdominal pain better with warmth and pressure; or palpitation, irritability, pale complexion, thready, wiry and slow pulse, Or low grade fever with sore extremities, dry mouth and throat
Applications: Gastritis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, inflammatory bowel disease, anemia, and leukemia
Xiao Jian Zhong Tang
Minor Construct the Middle Decoction:
Abdominal pain due to deficient cold or fever due to yang deficiency
Ingredients
1.Yi Tang (Maltose)
2.GuiZhi(RamulusCinnamomiCassiae)
3.Shao Yao (Radix Paeoniae)
4.Sheng Jiang (RhizomaZingiberisRecens)
5.Da Zao(Honey-fried FructusZizyphiJujubae)
6.ZhiGanCao (Radix GlycyrrhizaeUralensis)
Preparation: Decoction, add Yi Tang (Maltose) to the strained decoction
Contraindication & Caution
1.Hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency
2.Vomiting
3.Vomiting roundworms
Functions
1.Warms the spleen and kidney
2.Rescues yang collapse
Diagnosis
1. Shao yin disease
2. Yang collapse due to inappropriate sweating in Tai Yang stage
Symptoms: Extremely cold extremities, intolerance to cold, sleeping with the knees drawn up, vomiting without thirst, abdominal cold pain, diarrhea with undigested food, mental fatigue and lethargic state with a constant desire to sleep, pale complexion, profuse sweating, white and slippery coating, deep, slow and minute pulse
Applications: Cardiac insufficiency, hypopituitarism, hypothyroidism, adrenal insufficiency
Si Ni Tang
Frigid Extremities Decoction:
Shao yin disease; Yang collapse due to inappropriate sweating in Tai Yang stage
Ingredients
1.Sheng Fu Zi(Radix LateralisAconitiCannichaeli)
2.GanJiang (RhizmaZingiberisOfficinalis)
3.ZhiGanCao (Honey-fried Radix Glycyrrhizae)
Preparation: Decoction, cook Sheng Fu Zifor one hour before adding the other ingredients, take warm
Contraindication
1.The patient with heat symptoms
2.Real heat with false cold syndromes
Formula Functions
1.Warms and tonifies MJ
2.Lowers reversed qi and relieves pain
Diagnosis: Interior cold with yang deficiency in the MJ
Symptoms: Severe epigastric and abdominal cold and pain, aversion to be touched, vomiting, poor appetite, or cold extremities, or borborygmus, white and slippery coating, thready and tense or hidden pulse
Applications: Chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, chronic pancreatitis, intestinal spasms, and intestinal obstruction
Da Jian Zhong Tang
Major Construct the Middle Decoction:
Interior cold with MJ yang deficiency
Ingredients
1.ChuanJiao (PericarpiumZanthoxyliBungeani)
2.GanJiang (RhizomaZingiberisOfficinalis)
3.Ren Shen (Radix Ginseng)
4.Yi Tang (Maltose)
Preparation: Decoction, add Yi Tang (maltose) to the strained decoction
Contraindication
1.Damp-heat
2.Yin and blood deficiency
Formula for cold feeling only in the fingers and toes ⇒ warm up with brief touch
Yang Jue (LV Qi stagnation ⇒ internal heat ⇒ constrains the Yang Qi ⇒ inhibits its spreading to the extremities)
Si Ni San
*Chai Hu
*ZhiShi
*Bai Shao
*ZhiGanCao
Formula for cold feeling in the entire limb
⇒ difficult to warm up with touch
Yin Jue (KD and SP Yang Xu ⇒ lose their warming function)
Si Ni Tang
*Sheng Fu Zi
*Gan Jiang
*Zhi Gan Cao
Formula for severe abdominal pain that is aggravated by touch
Da Jian Zhong Tang
*ChuanJiao
*GanJiang
*Ren Shen
*Yi Tang
Formula for abdominal pain that is alleviated by warmth and touch
Li Zhong Wan
*Gan Jiang
*Ren Shen
*Bai Zhu
*Zhi Gan Cao
Formula for cold limbs, somnolence
KD/SP Yang Xu or Yang collapse
Si Ni Tang
*Sheng Fu Zi
*Gan Jiang
*Zhi Gan Cao
Formula for cold limbs, irritability, severe mental agitation
KD/ST Xu with LV Qi rebellion
Wu Zhu Yu Tang
*Wu Zhu Yu
*Sheng Jiang
*Ren Shen
*Da Zao
