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📒 a guide to how to modify classic chinese herbal prescriptions as per individual needs. join and share your expertise with the community 👩⚕️🤝👨⚕️
a new guide is born – the tcm pocketguide – for students and practitioners of traditional chinese herbal medicine from all over the world. 🌎
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zhen wu tang • true warrior decoction • 真武湯
👉 the chinese herbal prescription zhen wu tang is used for kidney and spleen yang deficiency causing water accumulation, kidney yang deficiency and water overflowing, shao yin cold.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of zhen wu tang
yi yi ren • semen coicis • job’s tears • 薏苡仁
👉 this herb is used for patterns with dampness, wind-damp bi syndrome, spleen deficiency with dampness, damp-heat, pus.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of yi yi ren
san ren tang • three nut decoction • 三仁湯
👉 the chinese herbal prescription san ren tang is used for early-stage damp-heat or summer-heat with dampness, pathogen lodged in the wei- and qi-level, heat in the upper jiao.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of san ren tang
cang zhu • rhizoma atractylodis • atractylodes rhizome • 苍术
👉 this herb is used for patterns with dampness, all kinds of bi syndrome, dampness obstructing the middle jiao, wind-dampness, wind-cold, summer-heat.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of cang zhu
ping wei san • calm the stomach powder • 平胃散
👉 the chinese herbal prescription ping wei san is used for spleen and stomach damp-cold stasis, damp accumulation in the middle jiao, spleen dampness disturbing the lungs.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of ping wei san
ze xie • rhizoma alismatis • water plantain rhizome • 泽泻
👉 this herb is used for patterns with stagnation from dampness, all kinds of lin syndrome, damp-heat in the lower jiao, liver/gallbladder damp-heat, kidney yin xu empty-heat.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of ze xie
wu ling san • five ingredient powder with poria • 五苓散
👉 the chinese herbal prescription wu ling san is used for bladder organ stage, spleen deficiency, water accumulation in the lower jiao.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of wu ling san
6th overview • expel dampness
📜 chinese herbal prescriptions that expel dampness
18 overviews – 18 categories of herbal prescriptions
bai he gu jin tang • lily bulb decoction to preserve the metal • 百合固金汤
👉 the chinese herbal prescription bai he gu jin tang is used for lung and kidney yin xu leading to lung dryness and affecting the collaterals.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of bai he gu jin tang
bai he • bulbus lilii • lily bulb • 百合
👉 this herb is used for patterns with lung yin xu, lung dryness, lung empty-heat, heart-heat/-fire, heart qi xu, heart yin xu, stomach yin xu.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of bai he