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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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zi su zi = su zi • fructus perillae • purple perilla fruit • 紫苏子
👉 this herb is used for patterns with lung phlegm, large intestine dryness.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of zi su zi
su zi jiang qi tang • perilla fruit decoction for directing qi downward • 苏子降气汤
👉 the chinese herbal prescription su zi jiang qi tang is used for phlegm-damp obstructing the lungs, cold phlegm-damp retention (excess above), kidney yang deficiency (deficiency below), kidneys unable to grasp the lung qi.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of su zi jiang qi tang
xiang fu • rhizoma cyperi • nut grass rhizome • 香附
👉 this herb is used for patterns with liver and spleen disharmony, liver qi stagnation.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of xiang fu
yue ju wan • escape restraint pill • 越鞠丸
👉 the chinese herbal prescription yue ju wan is used for all types of stagnation, liver qi stagnation offecting the upper and middle jiao. liver attacking the stomach.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of yue ju wan
9th overview • regulate qi
📜 chinese herbal prescriptions that regulate qi
18 overviews – 18 categories of herbal prescriptions
shan yao • rhizoma dioscoreae • chinese yam • 山药
👉 this herb is used for patterns with spleen or stomach deficiency, lung qi/yin deficiency, kidney qi deficiency, wasting and thirsting (xiao ke) from qi and yin deficiency.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of shan yao
jin gui shen qi wan • kidney qi pill from the golden cabinet • 金匱腎氣丸
👉 the chinese herbal prescription jin gui shen qi wan is used for kidney yang deficiency, leg qi, wasting and thirsting (xiao ke), fluid (jin ye) stasis, atrophy disorder (wei syndrome) from liver and kidney deficiency.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of jin gui shen qi wan
bai shao yao • radix paeoniae alba • white peony root • 白芍
👉 this herb is used for patterns with liver blood deficiency, yin deficiency, liver and spleen disharmony, disharmony between ying and wei qi, liver qi stagnation with yang rising, liver wind from yin and blood deficiency, bi syndrome from blood deficiency.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of bai shao yao