Expels Dampness

Wu Ling San Five Ingredient Powder with Poria

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Actions: Promotes urination, drains dampness, strengthens the Spleen, warms the yang, and promotes the transforming functions of qi. Chief Deputy

(a) Ze Xie (b) Fu Ling

Leaches out dampness and promotes urination. Leaches out dampness in cases of xu by promoting urination, strengthening the Spleen, and assisting the yang.

Assistant

(c) Zhu Ling (d) Bai Zhu

Eliminates dampness and promotes urination. Strengthens the Spleen qi, thereby aiding in the transformation and transportation of fluids, and thus the resolution of dampness.

(e) Gui Zhi

Dispel pathogenic influences from the exterior and thereby releases the exterior aspects of the greater yang-stage disorder.

Indications: 1. H/A, fever, irritability, strong thirst but with vomiting immediately after drinking, urinary difficulty, and a floating pulse. 2. Edema, generalized sensation of heaviness, diarrhea, urinary difficulty, and possible vomiting and diarrhea due to sudden turmoil disorder. 3. Throbbing pulsations just below the umbilicus, vomiting frothy saliva, vertigo, shortness of breath, and coughing.

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Zhu Ling Tang Polyporus Decoction

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Actions: Promotes urination, clears heat, and nourishes the yin. Chief

(a) Zhu Ling

Strongly reinforces the proper functioning of the water pathways and thereby promotes urination.

(b) Fu Ling

Promotes urination, benefits the Spleen, and harmonizes the Stomach. Promotes water metabolism, unblocks the deep parts of the water pathways that involve the Kidneys, and aids the chief ingredients in promoting urination Clears heat and unblocks painful urinary dysfunction. Enriches the yin and prevents excessive urination.

Deputy

(c) Ze Xie

Assistant

(d) Hua Shi

Envoy

(e) E Jiao

Indications: Urinary difficulty accompanied by fever and thirst with a desire to drink. There may also be diarrhea, cough, nausea, irritability, or insomnia.

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Wu Pi San Five-Peel Powder

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e

Actions: Resolves dampness, reduces edema, regulates the qi, and strengthens the Spleen. Chief

(a) Sang Bai Pi

Deputy

(b) Sheng Jiang Pi (c) Fu Ling Pi

Assistant

(d) Chen Pi (e) Da Fu Pi

Promotes urination by directing the Lung qi downward and opening up the water pathways. Transforms dampness and disperses edema. Leaches out dampness, promotes urination, and strengthens the transporting function of the Spleen. Reestablish the smooth flow of qi and eliminate qi stagnation.

Indications: Generalized edema with a sensation of heaviness, distention, and fullness in the epigastrium and abdomen, labored and heavy breathing, urinary difficulty, a white, greasy tongue coating, and a submerged and moderate pulse.

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Fang Ji Huang Qi Tang Stephania and Astragalus Decoction b

c

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Actions: Augments the qi, strengthens the Spleen, promotes urination, and reduces edema. Chief

(a) Huang Qi (b) Han Fang Ji

Deputy Assistant Envoy

(c) Bai Zhu (d) Zhi Gan Cao (e) Sheng Jiang (f) Da Zao

Stabilizes and strengthens the protective qi. Releases the exterior, unblocks the channels, promotes urination, expels dampness, and relieves pain. Strengthens the Spleen and resolves dampness Helps tonify the Spleen. Regulates and harmonizes the nutritive and protective qi to assist in the stabilization of the exterior and the strengthening of the qi and xue.

Indications: Sweating, a heavy sensation in the body, superficial edema, urinary difficulty, a pale tongue with a white coating, and a floating pulse.

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Ping Wei San Calm the Stomach Powder a

d

b

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c

f

Actions: Dries dampness, improves the Spleen’s transporting function, promotes the movement of qi, and harmonizes the Stomach. Chief

(a) Cang Zhu

Deputy Assistant

(b) Hou Po (c) Chen Pi

Envoy

(d) Zhi Gan Cao

(e) Sheng Jiang (f) Da Zao

Dispels dampness and strengthens the transporting function of the Spleen. Dispels dampness and disperses fullness. Regulates the qi and thereby transforms the dampness. Harmonizes the actions of the other herbs and enhances their Spleen strengthening properties. Also tonifies the Spleen. Mildly regulate and harmonize the relationship between the Spleen and Stomach.

Indications: Distention and fullness in the epigastrium and abdomen, loss of taste and appetite, a heavy sensation in the limbs, loose stool or diarrhea, easily-fatigued, increased desire to sleep, nausea and vomiting, belching, acid regurgitation, a swollen tongue with a thick, white, and greasy coating, and a moderate or slippery pulse.

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Huo Xiang Zheng Qi San Agstache Powder to Rectify the Qi b

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Actions: Releases the exterior, transforms dampness, regulates the qi, and harmonizes the middle burner. Chief

(a) Huo Xiang

Deputy

(b) Huo Po

Assistant

Envoy

Disperses wind-cold, transforms turbid dampness, revives the Spleen, and stops vomiting. Moves the qi and promotes proper water metabolism to expand the chest and reduce the stagnation of fullness and stifling oppression.

(c) Chen Pi

Regulates the qi, transforms dampness, and harmonizes the functions of the middle burner.

(d) Zi Su Ye

Exterior-releasing herb, harmonizes the middle burner.

(e) Bai Zhi (f) Ban Xia

Effective in treating headache. Harmonizes the Stomach and stops vomiting.

(g) Da Fu Pi

Like Hou Po but focuses on the lower burner.

(h) Bai Zhu (i) Fu Ling

Strengthening the Spleen and transforming dampness.

(j) Jie Geng (k) Zhi Gan Cao (l) Sheng Jiang (m) Da Zao

Promotes the proper functioning of the Lungs and diaphragm. Harmonize the actions of the other herbs and regulate the Spleen and Stomach.

Indications: Fever and chills, headache, a sensation of fullness and stifling oppression in the chest, pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, nausea and vomiting, borborygmus, diarrhea, loss of taste, a white, greasy tongue coating, and a moderate, soggy pulse. http://www.orientalmedicine.edu/student_learning_resource.htm

San Ren Tang Three-Nut Decoction b

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Actions: Disseminates the qi, facilitates the qi mechanisms, and clears damp-heat. Chief

(a) Xing Ren

Facilitates the flow of Lung qi and thus allows it to descend.

(b) Bai Dou Kou

Transforms turbid dampness and revives the Spleen. Leaches out dampness through the urine.

(c) Yi Yi Ren Deputy

(d) Hou Po (e) Ban Xia

Drying properties that treat epigastric and abdominal distention due to dampness or phlegm.

Assistant

(f) Tong Cao (g) Dan Zhu Ye (h) Hua Shi

Resolve dampness by promoting urination, and also clears heat.

Indications: H/A, chills, afternoon fever, a heavy sensation in the body, generalized pain, paleyellow complexion, a stifling sensation in the chest, loss of appetite, an absence of thirst, a white tongue coating, and a wiry, thin, and soggy pulse.

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Gan Lu Xiao Du Dan Sweet Dew Special Pill to Eliminate Toxin

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Actions: Resolves dampness, transforms turbidity, clears heat, and relieves toxicity. (a) Lian Qiao (b) Huang Qin (c) Bo He

Clear heat from the upper and relatively exterior aspects of the body.

(d) She Gan (e) Chuan Bei Mu

Drain heat from the Lungs, improve the functioning of the throat, and transform phlegm.

(f) Hua Shi (g) Mu Tong (h) Yin Chen Hao

Drain damp-heat from the lower burner.

(i) Huo Xiang (j) Shi Chang Pu (k) Bai Dou Kou

Eliminates the turbidity and revive the Spleen. (HX – releases the exterior aspects of the body) (SCP – clear the consciousness)

Indications: Fever, achy limbs, lethargy, swollen throat, a stifling sensation in the chest, abdominal distention, dark, scanty urine, a white, greasy or yellow, dry tongue coating, and a soggy, rapid pulse. There may also be vomiting and diarrhea, jaundice, or unremitting fever.

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Lian Po Yin Coptis and Magnolia Bark Decoction a

b

e

c

d

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g

Actions: Clears heat, transforms dampness, regulates the qi, and harmonizes the middle burner. Chief

Deputy

Assistant

(a) Huang Lian

Clears heat and dries dampness in the middle burner.

(b) Hou Po

Transforming dampness and promoting the movement of qi. Also focuses on the middle burner.

(c) Zhi Zi (d) Dan Dou Chi

Clears the constrained heat from the chest and epigastrium.

(e) Shi Chang Pu

Transforms dampness and revives the Spleen.

(f) Ban Xia

Assists Hou Po in drying dampness and is very effective in directing rebellious Stomach downward, thereby stopping the vomiting.

(g) Lu Gen

Aids in clearing and transforming damp-heat, harmonizing the Stomach, and stopping the vomiting.

Indications: Simultaneous vomiting and diarrhea, focal distention and a stifling sensation in the chest and epigastrium, dark, scanty urine, and a yellow, greasy tongue coating.

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Yin Chen Hao Tang Artemisia Yinchenhao Decoction

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b

c

Actions: Clears heat, resolves dampness, and reduces jaundice. Chief

(a) Yin Chen Hao

Deputy

(b) Zhi Zi

Assistant

(c) Da Huang

Treats all types of jaundice esp. damp-heat. Clears heat from the three burners and more specifically, drains damp-heat through the urine.

Purges heat through the bowels.

Indications: Whole-body jaundice with color that resembles a ‘fresh tangerine,’ slight abdominal distention, urinary difficulty, thirst (with the ability to take only sips), a yellow, greasy tongue coating, and a slippery, rapid pulse.

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Zhong Man Fen Xiao Wan Separate and Reduce Fullness in the Middle Pill a

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Actions: Strengthens the Spleen, regulates the qi, drains heat, and resolves dampness. (a) Hou Po (b) Zhi Shi (c) Jiang Huang (d) Huang Qin (e) Huang Lian (f) Gan Jiang (g) Ban Xia

Removes the obstruction to the flow of qi in the middle burner. Aids Hou Po and Zhi Shi Drains stagnation from the epigastrium and thereby separate the dampness from the heat.

(h) Zhi Mu

Clears yang brightness-stage heat, also enriches the yin to prevent it from being further injured by the progress of the disorder or the actions of the other herbs.

(i) Ze Xie (j) Zhu Ling (k) Fu Ling

Leaches out dampness through the urine. (FL tonifies the Spleen)

(l) Bai Zhu (m) Ren Shen (n) Zhi Gan Cao (o) Chen Pi (p) Sha Ren

Tonifies the Spleen qi.

Qi regulators like those in the first group. Regulate and revive the Spleen.

Indications: Abdominal distention, firmness with a sensation of fullness and bursting pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, irritability, fever, a bitter taste in the mouth, dark-yellow urine, constipation or foul-smelling diarrhea, a yellow, greasy tongue coating, and a wiry, rapid pulse. http://www.orientalmedicine.edu/student_learning_resource.htm

Ba Zheng San Eight-Herb Powder for Rectification

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d

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Actions: Clears heat, promotes urination, and unblocks painful urinary dysfunction. Chief

(a) Mu Tong

Deputy

(b) Hua Shi (c) Che Qian Zi (d) Qu Mai (e) Bian Xu

Assistant

(f) Zhi Zi (g) Da Huang

Envoy

(h) Deng Xin Cao (i) Gan Cao

Clears heat, promotes urination, and is very effective in clearing the obstruction caused by damp stagnation. Clear damp-heat by promoting urination, and thereby assist the chief herb in unblocking the painful urinary dysfunction. Drains heat form the three burner through the urine Drains heat through the stool. Guides heat downward. Harmonizes the actions of the other ingredients and relieves the abdominal pain.

Indications: Dark, turbid, scanty, difficult, and painful urination, a dry mouth and throat, a yellow, greasy tongue coating, and a slippery, rapid pulse. In severe cases, there may be urinary retention and lower abdominal distention and pain.

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Shao Yao Tang Peony Decoction b

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Actions: Regulates and harmonizes the qi and xue, clears heat, and relieves toxicity. Chief Deputy

Assistant

(a) Bai Shao (b) Dang Gui

Regulates the nutritive qi and the xue. Regulates the xue.

(c) Gan Cao

Moderates the spasms and relieves abdominal pain. (also serves as an assistant herb which harmonizes the functions of the St. and protects its qi from the harsh actions of the other herb)

(d) Mu Xiang (e) Bing Lang

Promote the movement of qi and help eliminate stagnation.

(f) Huang Lian (g) Huang Qin

Resolve heat toxin in the Intestines by clearing heat and drying dampness.

(h) Da Huang

Drains heat through the stool.

(i) Rou Gui

Moves the blood.

Indications: Abdominal pain, tenesmus, difficulty with defecation, diarrhea with pus and xue (equal amounts), a burning sensation around the anus, dark, scanty urine, a greasy, slightly yellow tongue coating, and a rapid pulse.

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Er Miao San Two-Marvel Powder

a b

Actions: Clears heat and dries dampness. (a) Huang Bai

Treats damp-heat in the lower burner.

(b) Cang Zhu

Dries dampness.

Indications: For a wide variety of complaints accompanied by scanty, yellow urine and a yellow, greasy tongue coating. Among these complaints are pain in the lower back or extremities (especially the sinews or bones); weakness or atrophy of the lower extremities; red, hot, swollen, and painful feet or knees; a thick, yellow, foul-smelling vaginal discharge; and sores on the lower extremities due to dampness.

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Zhen Wu Tang True Warrior Decoction

a

b

c

e d

Actions: Warms the yang and promotes urination. Chief

(a) Fu Zi

Deputy

(b) Bai Zhu (c) Fu Ling

Assistant

(d) Sheng Jiang

(e) Bai Shao

Restores the Kidney yang and thereby enables the Kidneys to resumes their function of transforming water. Strengthen the Spleen and promote urination. Dispels the pathogenic water and thereby strengthens the actions of the deputy herbs. Preserves the yin and alleviates pain.

Indications: Abdominal pain which is aggravated by cold, urinary difficulty, and deep aching and heaviness in the extremities. There may also by generalized edema, loose stools, dizziness, a heavy sensation in the head, palpitations, coughing, vomiting, a pale or dark swollen tongue with tooth marks, a white, slippery tongue coating, and a submerged, thin, and forceless pulse.

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Shi Pi Yin Bolster the Spleen Decoction

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Actions: Warms the yang, strengthens the Spleen, promotes the movement of qi, and promotes urination. Chief

(a) Fu Zi

(b) Gan Jiang

Deputy Assistant

(c) Fu Ling (d) Bai Zhu (e) Mu Gua

(f) Hou Po (g) Mu Xiang (h) Da Fu Pi (i) Cao Guo Envoy

(j) Zhi Gan Cao (k) Sheng Jiang (l) Da Zao

Unblocking and promoting the movement of yang qi in all twelve channels. Warms and promotes the movement of Spleen yang to invigorate the transporting processes in the middle burner, and the Spleen yang’s ability to transform and transport water and dampness.

Strengthen the Spleen and resolve dampness by promoting urination. Revives the Spleen, transforms dampness, and promotes urination to strengthen the Spleen’s transporting and transforming functions.

Directs the qi downward, guides out stagnation, transforms dampness, and circulates the fluids. (DFP promotes the movement of qi, promotes urination, and reduces edema. Regulate and harmonize the other herbs, benefit the Spleen, and harmonize the middle burner.

Indications: Generalized edema that is more severe below the waist, cold extremities, chest and abdominal fullness and distention, a heavy sensation in the body, loss of appetite, absence of thirst, scanty urine, semi-liquid, unformed stools, a thick, greasy tongue coating, and a submerged, slow or submerged, thin pulse. http://www.orientalmedicine.edu/student_learning_resource.htm

Bei Xie Fen Qing Yin Dioscorea Hypoglauca Decoction to Separate the Clear a

b

d c

Actions: Warms the Kidneys, drains dampness, and transforms and separates the turbid from the clear. Chief

(a) Bei Xie

Treats cloudy urine by draining dampness and transforming turbidity.

Deputy

(b) Yi Zhi Ren

Assistant

(c) Wu Yao

Warms the Kidneys and promotes the movement of qi and the transformation of water.

(d) Shi Chang Pu

Transforms turbidity and eliminates dampness and cold from xu in the Bladder.

Warms the Kidney yang and thereby reduces the frequency of urination.

Indications: Frequent urination with cloudy, dense, milky (resembling rice water), or greasy urine.

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Ji Ming San Powder to Take at Cock’s Crow

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c

d

e

a

f g Actions: Promotes the movement of qi, causes turbidity to descend, and transforms damp-cold. Chief

Deputy

(a) Bing Lang

Directs rebellious qi downward; it is used to expel the obstruction from dampness.

(b) Mu Gua

It transforms dampness, relaxes the sinews, and invigorates the collaterals. Disperses cold and causes the turbidity to descend.

(c) Wu Zhu Yu (d) Chen Pi

Assistant

(e) Zi Su Ye

Envoy

(f) Jie Geng (g) Sheng Jiang

Regulates the qi and strengthens the Spleen, indirectly resolving the dampness. Disperses wind-cold. Unblocks and disseminates the Lung qi. Warms and disperses cold and thereby helps treat the leg qi.

Indications: Heavy and weak feet and calves with difficulty in walking. There may also be numbness, cold, or pain (or both) in these areas, or ascending spasms. In severe cases, there may also be a stifling sensation in the chest and nausea.

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Qiang Huo Sheng Shi Tang Notopterygium Decoction to Overcome Dampness a b

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Actions: Expels wind and overcomes dampness. Chief

(a) Qiang Huo

Expels wind-dampness from the upper reaches of the greater yang channel.

(b) Du Huo

Expels wind-dampness from the lower reaches of this channel.

Deputy

(c) Gao Ben (d) Fang Feng

Expel wind and dampness from the exterior aspects of the greater yang channel, and reinforce the actions of Qiang Huo, esp. in treating H/A.

Assistant

(e) Chuan Xiong

Treats the headache and invigorates the xue, which helps relieve the generalized heaviness and pain.

(f) Man Jing Zi

Treats the headache.

Envoy

(g) Gan Cao

Harmonizes the actions of the herbs.

Indications: Heavy and painful head, a generalized sensation of heaviness, back or generalized pain, difficulty in rotating or bending the trunk, mild fever, chills, a white tongue coating, and a floating pulse.

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Juan Bi Tang Remove Painful Obstruction Decoction from Medical Revelations

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Actions: Removes wind-dampness and alleviates painful obstruction. Chief Deputy

Assistants

Envoy

(a) Qiang Huo (b) Du Huo (c) Qin Jiao (d) Sang Zhi (e) Hai Feng Teng (f) Dang Gui (g) Chuan Xiong

Relieve painful obstruction in both the upper and lower parts of the body. Effectively expel wind-dampness.

(h) Ru Xiang

Breaks up xue yu and helps treat localized pain.

(i) Mu Xiang

Revives the Spleen and is therefore helpful in treating dampness, as this improves fluid metabolism. Improves the circulation of the yang qi and helps direct the actions of the other herbs toward the extremities, esp. the shoulders.

(j) Rou Gui (Gui Zhi)

(k) Zhi Gan Cao

Invigorate the xue, which helps expel winddampness and stop the pain.

Prevents injury to the normal qi and harmonizes the actions of the other herbs.

Indications: Joint pain the increases with cold and diminishes with warmth, possibly accompanied by a sensation of heaviness and numbness in the limbs, a thick, white tongue coating, and a slow, possibly slippery pulse.

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Gui Zhi Shao Yao Zhi Mu Tang Cinnamon Twig, Peony, and Anemarrhena Decoction

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i

Actions: Unblocks the flow of yang qi, promotes movement (in areas with painful obstruction), dispels wind, and overcomes dampness. Chief Deputy

(a) Gui Zhi (b) Ma Huang

(c) Fu Zi

Assistant

Envoy

Warms and unblocks the channels. Strengthens this effect and relieves the relatively superficial swelling. Warms the channels and relieves pain.

(d) Zhi Mu (e) Bai Shao (f) Bai Zhu

Clear heat and prevents injury to the yin by recurrent painful obstruction. Works with the chief herb to unblock the flow of yang qi and leach out dampness.

(g) Fang Feng

Strengthens the formula’s function of expelling wind and dampness. Strengthens the spreading and mobilizing actions of the other herbs.

(h) Sheng Jiang

(i) Zhi Gan Cao

Harmonizes the actions of the other herbs and regulates the functions of the middle burner.

Indications: Swollen and painful joints (esp. of the lower extremities) that are warm to the touch and worsen at night, reduced ranged range of motion in the affected joints, chills, absence of sweating, weight loss, headache, dizziness, a white, greasy tongue coating, and a wiry, slippery pulse.

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Xuan Bi Tang Disband Painful Obstruction Decoction a

b

c d

g

e

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f i

Actions: Clears and resolves damp-heat, unblocks the channels, and disbands painful obstruction. Chief

(a) Guang Fang Ji

Deputy

(b) Xing Ren

Dispels damp-heat in the upper burner by venting the heat externally. Regulates the Lungs’ function in water metabolism

Assistant

(c) Yi Yi Ren (d) Can Sha (e) Ban Xia

Strengthen the Spleen, resolve dampness, and treat painful obstruction. Dries dampness and transforms turbidity.

(f) Lian Qiao

Clears superficial heat.

(g) Zhi Zi (h) Hua Shi (i) Chi Xiao Dou

Clears and drains dampness through the urine.

Indications: Heat and pain in the joints, reduced mobility, fever and shaking chills, a lusterless, yellow complexion, scanty, dark urine, and a gray or yellow and greasy tongue coating.

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Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang Angelica Pubescens and Sangjisheng Decoction a

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Actions: Expels wind-dampness, disperses painful obstruction, and tonifies deficiency. Chief Deputy

(a) Du Huo (b) Xi Xin

(c) Fang Feng

Assistant

Expels wind and overcomes dampness.

(d) Qin Jiao (e) Sang Ji Sheng (f) Du Zhong (g) Niu Xi

Relaxes the sinews and expels wind and dampness. Expel wind-dampness and tonify the Liver and Kidneys.

(h) Rou Gui

Warms and unblocks the channels and fortifies the yang.

(i) Dang Gui (j) Chuan Xiong (k) Sheng Di Huang (l) Bai Shao

Envoy

Expels wind, dampness and cold from the lower burner, bones, and sinews. Scatters cold in the channels and scours out wind-dampness from the sinews and bones to stop the pain.

(m) Dang Shen (n) Fu Ling Niu Xi (not pictured) (o) Gan Cao

Nourishes and invigorates the xue.

Strengthens the Spleen to treat dampness. Relaxes the sinews and expels wind and dampness. Tonifies the middle qi and harmonizes the actions of the other herbs in the formula.

Indications: Heavy and painful sensations at fixed locations in the lower back and lower extremities accompanied by weakness and stiffness, an aversion to cold and attraction to warmth, palpitations, shortness of breath, a pale tongue with a white coating, and a thin, weak, slow pulse. There may also be parenthesis or numbness.

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