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Danggui Shaoyao San (Dong Gui and Peony Powder) comes from Zhang Zhongjing's Jin Gui Yao Lue (Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Coffer) of the Han dynasty. Its composition: Danggui 3 liang (9 g), Shaoyao 1 jin (48 g), Fuling 4 liang (12 g), Baizhu 4…

"Jing bing" (convulsion disease) is a specific TCM term. Its main symptoms are rigidity of the neck and back, convulsion of the limbs, even lockjaw and opisthotonus. Clinically, its common syndrome feature is tension and contracture of the muscles and tendons; it may present as…

Fu Ling Ze Xie Tang (Poria-Alisma Decoction) comes from the Jingui Yaolue (Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Cabinet). The original text reads: "In stomach counter-flow (fan wei), when there is vomiting and thirst with a desire to drink water, Fu Ling Ze Xie Tang governs."…

Xiaobanxia Decoction comes from Jingui Yaolue (Essentials from the Golden Cabinet). It uses only two herbs: Banxia (Pinelliae Rhizoma) 1 sheng (modern use: 15 g), fresh ginger 0.5 jin (modern use: 24 g). These are boiled in 7 sheng of water down to 1.5 sheng,…

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…

Yellow sweat disease is a very rare condition in which the patient's sweat is yellow and can stain clothing yellow. Why do people produce yellow sweat? Medicine cannot yet explain it clearly; some yellow-sweat patients are checked for bilirubin, and the level is not elevated,…

I grew up in the countryside. During the busy farming season I had to work the fields with my parents; rural children have followed the same path for thousands of years. The hardest work we did as children was probably transplanting rice seedlings. It required…

The idea of pattern differentiation and treatment was first contributed by Zhang Zhongjing, so calling him the Medical Sage is no exaggeration; TCM doctors through the dynasties are all his spiritual descendants. It is commonplace that pattern differentiation and treatment began with Zhang Zhongjing; in…

Da Qinglong Tang is a classical formula from Zhang Zhongjing's Shanghan Lun. The original formula: Mahuang six liang (nodes removed), Guizhi two liang (peel removed), Zhi Gancao (honey-fried licorice) two liang, Xingren forty pieces (tips and peel removed), Shengjiang three liang (sliced), Dazao ten pieces…