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Li Dongyuan, one of the four great Jin-Yuan masters and founder of the Spleen-Stomach school, lived in an age of plague and war. Poor conditions and epidemics caused many spleen-stomach diseases—then the epidemic disease. This gave him rich clinical experience and made him the school's…

Xuanfu Daizhe Tang comes from the Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage), which states: 'After cold damage treated by sweating, or vomiting, or purging, if the chest epigastrium is hard and stuffed and belching does not cease, Xuanfu Daizhe Tang governs it.' Composition: Xuanfuhua (Inula)…

The Beiji Qianjin Yaofang (Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold) contains Xijiao Dihuang Tang, a classic for clearing heat and toxin, cooling blood, and resolving stasis. Since rhinos are endangered, rhinoceros horn is no longer used; modern TCM substitutes water buffalo horn, and the old…

Qingying Tang (Nutritive-Level-Clearing Decoction) comes from the Wenbing Tiaobian (Systematized Identification of Warm-Heat Diseases). It is a classic formula commonly used in TCM for heat entering the nutritive (ying) level. Signs: fever worse at night, irritability and insomnia, occasional delirium, eyes often either wide open…

Banxia Xiexin Tang, Shengjiang Xiexin Tang, and Gancao Xiexin Tang in Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Cold Damage (Shanghan Lun) are three formulas for digestive tract diseases. Original text from the Shanghan Lun: "When cold damage has lasted five or six days and there is vomiting…

In Professor Zhao Shaoqin's work Zhao Shaoqin's Inner-Canon Heart Methods there is an experience formula for treating "jiju" (accumulation, i.e., late-stage pelvo-abdominal tumors) in patients with qi-and-blood deficiency and long-standing stasis. It is a pill formula, a combination of "Gongji Wan" (Accumulation-Attacking Pill) and "Bazhen…

Erdong Tang originates from Medical Mind Awakening (Yi Xue Xin Wu) by the Qing dynasty physician Cheng Guopeng (Zhongling). Because the formula uses two herbs — Maidong (Ophiopogonis Radix) and Tiandong (Asparagi Radix) — it is named Erdong Tang, the "Two-Winter Decoction." The composition of…

Chunze Tang comes from Shiyi Dexiao Fang (Effective Formulas to Benefit Physicians), and is an empirical formula for treating vexed thirst with a desire to drink together with difficult urination. The original text mainly uses it for summer-heat damage with vexed thirst and uncontrolled drinking,…

In Zhang Xichun's *Lvshi Lvxiao Fang (Repeatedly Tested and Repeatedly Effective Formulas)* there is a formula called "Shiquan Yuzhen Tang" (Ten-Complete Truth-Nourishing Decoction), which Zhang Xichun used to treat what TCM calls "xu lao" (deficiency-tax) and "lao zhai" (consumptive phthisis; the character zhai is pronounced…

Tongqiao Huoxue Tang (Orifice-Unblocking Blood-Activating Decoction) is a formula created by Wang Qingren himself, from Wang Qingren's work *Yilin Gaicuo (Correction of Errors in Medical Classics)*; it is a famous formula for activating blood and resolving stasis. This formula has a certain effect in improving…