HERB FORMULAS

ASTRAGALUS AND DRYNARIA COMBINATION

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HERBS AND ACTIONS

Pharmaceutical Latin
Pin Yin
Dosage
Actions
Rx. Astragali Huang Qi 30g Tonifies Qi and Blood and relieves numbness and pain.
Rz. Drynariae Gu Sui Bu 15g Tonifies Kidney Yang, strengthens the sinews and bones, helps regain strength after injuries, Promotes mending of sinews and bones and activates the Blood.
Rx. Achyranthis Niu Xi 15g Invigorates the Blood, expels Blood Stasis, nourishes Liver and Kidney Yin, strengthens the sinews and bones and benefits the joints.
Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum Lu Rong 12g Tonifies the Kidneys, strengthens Yang, warms Yang, regulates the Chong and Ren channels, stabilizes the Dai channel, tonifies the DU channel, strengthens Jing and Blood, strengthens the sinews and bones and benefits Marrow.
Rz. Chuanxiong Chuan Xiong 12g Invigorates the Blood, promotes the movement of Qi, expels Wind and alleviates pain.
With Xi Xin, for Wind-Cold headaches.
Hb. cum Rx. Asari Xi Xin 10g Releases Exterior Wind and Cold, disperses Wind-Cold and Internal Cold and alleviates pain.
With Chuan Xiong, for Wind-Cold headache, toothache and Bi pain.

FORMULA ACTIONS

  • Alleviates Wind-Cold-Damp

SYNDROMES

  • Wind-Cold-Damp Bi

CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS

  • Painful joints
  • Heavy and painful sensations at fixed locations in lower back and extremities with weakness and stiffness or hypertonicity and immobility
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Attraction to warmth
  • Palpitations
  • Pain in the midline and back during pregnancy
  • Pain worse at night General coldness
  • Sallow complexion
  • Wandering pain
  • Pale complexion
  • Shortness of breath
  • May be paresthesias and numbness
  • Cold pain in the low back and knees
  • Limited movement
  • Soreness, weakness and numbness of the joints
  • Tinnitus
  • Muscle spasms
  • Dizziness
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white or White and moist
  • P: Thin, weak and slow or Deep, thready and weak or slippery

TREATS

CONTRAINDICATIONS AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

NOTES

MODIFICATIONS

For cervical vertebrae: For lumbar vertebrae:
+ 10g Rx. Puerariae Ge Gen + 12g Cx. Eucommiae Du Zhong
+ 10g Rx. Angelicae Dahuricae Bai Zhi + 10g Rx. Aconiti lateralis Preparata Zhi Fu Zi
For knee joints:
For severe blood Stagnation:
+ 12g Lignum Pini Nodi Song Jie + 20g Caul. Spatholobi Ji Xue Teng
+ 15g Fr Chaenomelis Mu Gua + 20g Rx. Salviae Miltiorrhizae Dan Shen