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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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bai hu tang • white tiger decoction • 白虎湯
👉 the chinese herbal prescription bai hu tang is used for patterns of blazing heat in yang ming (4 bigs!), lung and stomach excess heat, channel stage.
🤕 symptoms that indicate the use of bai hu tang
2nd overview • clear heat
📜 chinese herbal prescriptions that clear heat
18 overviews – 18 categories of herbal prescriptions
ge gen • radix puerariae • kudzu root • 葛根
👉 this herb is used for patterns with wind-heat or wind-cold lodged in upper back and neck, stomach-heat, spleen qi/yang sinking, vents rashes.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of ge gen
ge gen huang lian huang qin tang • kudzu, coptis, and scutellaria decoction • 葛根黃蓮黃苓湯
👉 the chinese herbal prescription ge gen huang lian huang qin tang is used for patterns of unresolved exterior pathogen entering the yang ming level, and leading to damp-heat in the lower jiao, possibly inappropriate treatment of tai yang with laxatives.
🤕 symptoms that indicate the use of ge gen huang lian huang qin tang
lian qiao • fructus forsythia • forsythia fruit • 连翘
👉 this herb is used for patterns with wind-heat, throat-bi, toxic-heat, fire-toxin, pericard-/heart-heat, blood-heat, lin syndrome.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of lian qiao
yin qiao san • honeysuckle and forsythia powder • 银翘散
👉 the chinese herbal prescription yin qiao san is used for patterns of exterior wind-heat with heat toxin, wind-heat attacking the lungs, wen bing wei level, summerheat with dampness.
🤕 symptoms that indicate the use of yin qiao san
gui zhi • ramulus cinnamomi • cinnamon twig • 桂枝
👉 this herb is used for patterns with wind-cold, wind-cold-damp bi, heart and spleen yang xu, middle jiao yang xu, chong mai and ren mai xu, blood stasis from cold.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of gui zhi
gui zhi tang • cinnamon twig decoction • 桂枝湯
👉 the chinese herbal prescription gui zhi tang is used for patterns of exterior wind-cold with concurrent ying qi and wei qi disharmony/deficiency, exterior wind attack.
🤕 symptoms that indicate the use of gui zhi tang