HERB FORMULAS
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Rx. Astragali | Huang Qi | 15g | Tonifies Qi and Blood, strengthens the Spleen, tonifies Wei Qi, stabilizes the exterior and tonifies the Lungs. With Dang Shen, for Qi Deficiency with general debility, anorexia, fatigue, tired extremities and spontaneous sweat. With Bai Zhu, for Spleen Qi Deficiency with weakness, lassitude and loose stools. With Dang Gui, for Blood Deficiency due to hemorrhage with fatigue, low grade fever, irritability, and thirst in patients with a weak pulse due to Qi and Blood Deficiencies. With Fang Feng and Bai Zhu, for Wei Qi Deficiency with spontaneous sweat. With Sheng Ma, raises Yang Qi of the Spleen, allowing turbid Yin to descend and be eliminated, treating chronic diarrhea, a dragging sensation in the abdomen, fatigue, shortness of breath, uterine bleeding and prolapses. |
Rz. Atractylodis Macrocephalae | Bai Zhu | 12g | Tonifies the Spleen, augments Qi, dries Dampness, promotes water metabolism, stabilizes the exterior and stops sweating. |
Rx. Codonopsis | Dang Shen | 9g | Tonifies the Middle Jiao, augments Qi, tonifies the Lungs, restores the constitution and assists herbs that release the exterior or drain downward when there is significant Qi Deficiency. With Fu Ling, for Spleen and Stomach Deficiencies with fatigue, a sensation of fullness in the abdomen, dizziness, lethargy, shortness of breath, anorexia and loose stools or diarrhea. With Bai Zhu, for Spleen Qi Deficiency with anorexia, loose stools and vomiting. With Huang Qi, for Lung and Spleen Qi Deficiencies with fatigue, shortness of breath, diarrhea and anorexia. |
Rx. Saposhnikoviae | Fang Feng | 9g | Releases the exterior and expels External Wind. |
Poria | Fu Ling | 9g | Promotes urination, leaches out Dampness, strengthens the Spleen, harmonizes the Middle Jiao and transforms Phlegm. With Bai Zhu, strengthens the Spleen and resolves Dampness. With Zhi Ban Xia, expels Phlegm and stops nausea and vomiting, hiccups, coughs with clear, profuse Phlegm and loose and watery stools. With Zhi Ban Xia and Chen Pi, for nausea, vomiting, chest fullness and distention and anorexia due to congested fluid. With Zhi Ban Xia, Chen Pi and Sheng Jiang, for congested fluids in the Stomach causing nausea and vomiting. |
Rz. Pinelliae Preparatum | Zhi Ban Xia | 9g | Dries Dampness and transforms Phlegm. With Chen Pi, for a productive cough and a stifling sensation in the chest due to Phlegm-Damp Obstruction or Spleen Qi Deficiency. With Sheng Jiang, for vomiting due to Cold, thin mucus. |
Per. Citri Reticulatae | Chen Pi | 9g | Regulates Qi, adjusts the Middle, relieves the diaphragm, dries Dampness, transforms Phlegm and helps prevent Stagnation from tonic herbs. With Sheng Jiang, for vomiting and hiccups due to Disharmony of the Stomach Qi and Cold-Dampness Obstructing the Middle with nausea and hiccup. With Bai Zhu and Fang Feng, for borborygmus, abdominal pain, and diarrhea due to Liver Attacking the Spleen. With Bai Zhu, for anorexia and other symptoms of Damp-Obstruction due to Spleen Deficiency. With Zhi Ban Xia and Fu Ling, for cough due to accumulation of Dampness and Phlegm. |
Rx. Angelicae Sinensis | Dang Gui | 6g | Tonifies, invigorates and harmonizes the Blood, disperses Cold, stops cough and treats dyspnea. With Huang Qi, for Qi and Blood Deficiencies. With Chen Pi, Zhi Ban Xia and Fu Ling, for coughing attacks at night. |
Rx. Glycyrrhizae Preparata | Zhi Gan Cao | 4.5g | Tonifies the Spleen, augments Qi, moistens the Lungs, resolves Phlegm, stops cough and moderates and harmonizes the harsh properties of other herbs. With Dang Shen, for anorexia, fatigue and loose stools due to Spleen Deficiency. with Dang Shen, Fu Ling and Bai Zhu, strengthens the Spleen and augments Qi. |
Rz. Cimicifugae | Sheng Ma | 4.5g | Releases the exterior, clears Heat and relieves toxicity. With Chai Hu and other Wind-expelling, exterior-releasing herbs, to treat continuous fever, headache and sore throat from Wind-Heat patterns constrained in the muscle layer. With Chai Hu and Huang Qi, for prolapse of internal organs. |
Rx. Bupleuri | Chai Hu | 3g | Disperses Wind-Heat, resolves Phlegm and congestion and raises Yang Qi. With Huang Qi, raises the Clear Yang due to abnormal descent of Qi. |
Rz. Zingiberis Recens | Sheng Jiang | 3g | Releases the Exterior, induces perspiration, disperses Cold, warms the Middle and stops vomiting, warms the Lungs and stops cough and reduces the toxicity of other herbs. With Zhi Ban Xia, for productive cough due to Phlegm-Dampness. |
- Tonifies Qi
- Stabilizes the exterior
- Stops sweat
- Tonifies Middle Jiao Qi
- Regulates Qi
- Raises Sunken Yang
- Lifts prolapsed organs
- Dries Dampness
- Transforms Phlegm
- Regulates Qi
- Harmonizes the Middle Jiao
- Spleen and Lung Qi Deficiency: Yin Fire due to Spleen and Lung Qi Deficiency
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HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS |
- This formula is a combination of Tonify the Middle and Augment the Qi Decoction Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang, Jade Windscreen Powder Yu Ping Feng San and Two Aged Ingredients Er Chen Tang.
For concurrent Qi Deficiency with enuresis in a child or enduring clear, Cold white vaginal discharge in a woman: | For concurrent Kidney Yang or Kidney Yin and Yang Deficiency: | ||
+ 9g Fr. Alpiniae Oxyphyllae | Yi Zhi Ren | + Kidney Qi Pills Shen Qi Wan |
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+ 9g Rx. Linderae | Wu Yao | For Spleen Qi Deficiency with Kidney Yin Deficiency: |
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+ 9g. Rx. Dioscoreae | Shan Yao | + Six-Flavors Rehmannia Pills Liu Wei Di Huang Wan |
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For marked Liver Qi Stagnation: |
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+ More Rx. Bupleuri | Chai Hu | + Anemarrhenae and Phellodendron Rehmannia Pills Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan |
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+ 9g Rx. Paeoniae Alba | Bai Shao |