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Shufeng Qingjie Tang (Wind-Dispersing, Heat-Clearing Decoction) comes from TCM Waike Xinde Ji (Collected Reflections on TCM External Medicine) by contemporary TCM external-medicine expert Professor Zhao Shanghua. The formula consists of Jinyinhua (Flos Lonicerae) 30g, Fangfeng (Radix Saposhnikoviae) 6g, Lianqiao (Fructus Forsythiae) 10g, Huanglian (Rhizoma Coptidis)…

Spring is the high-incidence season for allergic skin diseases and for skin itching in cancer and chronic lung disease patients. TCM treatment of such pruritus has two classical experienced formulas: Xiao Feng San (Wind-Dispersing Powder) and Siwu Xiao Feng San (Four-Ingredient Wind-Dispersing Powder). Xiao Feng…

Biliary tract diseases belong to the Shaoyang syndrome in Chinese medicine and are usually treated with formulas from the Chaihu series. In clinical practice, Professor Yin Huihe, based on the clinical features of modern biliary tract diseases (such as obstructive jaundice, cholecystitis, and gallstones), modified…

Professor Liu Bingfan (1910–2000) was a native of Miluo, Hunan. For over fifty years he practiced Chinese medicine; he was a member of the National Schistosomiasis Research Committee, a council member of the All-China Association of Chinese Medicine, deputy director of the Theoretical Research Office…

Patients with hepatobiliary disease or tumors who present with abnormal liver function and hepatosplenomegaly often develop acute icteric hepatitis, accompanied by abdominal distension, dark urine, difficult urination, edema, grayish stools, yellowish skin, scleral icterus, yellow eyes, a bitter taste in the mouth, dry throat, and…

Major Saposhnikovia Decoction comes from the Song dynasty Prescriptions from the Imperial Pharmacy (Heji Jufang). The original formula: Chuanxiong (Fujian chuanxiong excluded), prepared Aconite (Pao Fuzi, peeled), each 1.5 liang; prepared rehmannia (Shu Di, washed), white atractylodes (Baizhu), Saposhnikovia (Fangfeng, rootlets removed), Angelica (Danggui, washed,…

New Acute Abdomen Studies (Xin Jij Zheng Xue) includes a formula specifically for ileus and intestinal adhesions called Adhesion-Relaxing Decoction (Nianlian Songjie Tang), composed of Magnolia bark (Houpo), Aucklandia (Muxiang), Lindera root (Wuyao), stir-fried radish seed (Cha Laifuzi), red Peony (Chishao), peach kernel (Taoren), mirabilite…

Huoxue Huajian Tang (Blood-Activating Hardness-Transforming Decoction) comes from Waike Zhengzong (Orthodox External Medicine). It is composed of: Saposhnikovia (Fangfeng), red Peony (Chishao), Angelica tail (Dangguiwei), Trichosanthes root (Tianhuafen), honeysuckle (Jinyinhua), Fritillaria (Beimu), Chuanxiong, Chinese honeylocust spine (Zaojiaoci), and Platycodon (Jiegeng), each 1 qian; plus stiff…

The late Dr. Zhao Bingnan was the towering authority of TCM external medicine in China; before his death he served as director of dermatological and external medicine at the Beijing Hospital of Chinese Medicine. He left behind many empirical formulas, among which four are named…

Huoxue Sanying Tang is from the 23rd essay "Goiter and Nodules" in volume 2 of Waike Zhengzong (Orthodox External Medicine) by the Ming-dynasty physician Chen Shigong. Its composition: Baishao (Paeonia alba), Danggui (Angelica), Chenpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium), Chuanxiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma), Banxia (Pinellia), Shudi (prepared Rehmannia),…