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Chai Ge Jie Ji Tang (Bupleurum-Kudzu Muscle-Resolving Decoction) comes from Tao Hua's Shanghan Liu Shu of the Ming dynasty. It was designed to treat combined disease of the three yang channels (Taiyang, Yangming, and Shaoyang). It thus uses Shaoyang herbs Chaihu (Bupleurum) and Huangqin (Scutellaria),…

Minor Bupleurum Decoction (Xiao Chaihu Tang) and Major Bupleurum Decoction (Da Chaihu Tang) are two famous formulas from the Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage) by the Eastern Han dynasty physician Zhang Zhongjing. When some cancer patients develop cancer fever, Minor or Major Bupleurum Decoction…

This is a formula recorded under the entry on Dan Douchi (Fermented Soybean) in Professor Zhang Tingmo's Chinese Materia Medica for Clinical Practice. I have not personally used it in the clinic and cannot judge its actual efficacy; I hope readers who have used it…