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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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gui ban • plastrum testudinis • chinese tortoise shell • 龟板
👉 this substance is used for patterns with kidney and liver yin deficiency, liver yang rising, liver wind, heart blood deficiency, blood-heat, chong and ren mai instability, non-healing sores and ulcers.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of gui ban
zhen gan xi feng tang • sedate the liver and extinguish wind decoction • 镇肝熄风汤
👉 the chinese herbal prescription zhen gan xi feng tang is used for liver and kidney yin deficiency causing yang rising, liver fire transforming into wind, liver wind with rebellious qi and blood, precursor of wind-stroke, jue yin type headache.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of zhen gan xi feng tang
chan tui • periostracum cicadae • cicada molting • 蝉蜕
👉 this substance is used for patterns with wind-heat, liver-wind, rashes, eye pathologies, liver yin deficiency with yang rising.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of chan tui
xiao feng san • eliminate wind powder • 消风散
👉 the chinese herbal prescription xiao feng san is used for heart fire with blood and yin deficiency, heart fire injuring the blood and yin, kidneys not able to root the heart.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of xiao feng san
14th overview • expel wind
📜 chinese herbal prescriptions that expel wind.
the first cycle of the thirteenth category is done. let’s move on to the fourtheenth: expel wind. which are the most important prescriptions in this category?
18 overviews – 18 categories of herbal prescriptions
sheng di huang • radix rehmanniae glutinosae • chinese foxglove root • 生地黄
👉 this herb is used for patterns with
ying-level heat, blood-level heat, blood-heat, heart-, kidney-, liver-yin deficiency, heart-fire, body fluids deficiency, xiao ke (diabetes)
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of sheng di huang
zhu sha an shen wan • cinnabar pill to calm the spirit • 朱砂安神丸
👉 the chinese herbal prescription zhu sha an shen wan is used for heart fire with blood and yin deficiency, heart fire injuring the blood and yin, kidneys not able to root the heart.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of zhu sha an shen wan
xuan shen • radix scrophulariae • ningpo figwort root • 玄参
👉 this herb is used for patterns with
blood-level heat, or blood-heat, yin deficiency empty-heat, heart yin deficiency, heart fire, ying-level heat, hardness, nodules, throat pathologies.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of xuan shen
tian wang bu xin dan • emperor of heaven’s special pill to tonify the heart • 天王补心丹
👉 the chinese herbal prescription tian wang bu xin dan is used for
heart yin deficiency, heart and kidney yin deficiency with fire flaring, kidney yin unable to control heart fire, heart and kidney yin deficiency with heart blood xu
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of tian wang bu xin dan
13th overview • calm the spirit
📜 chinese herbal prescriptions that calm the spirit.
the first cycle of the twelfth category is done. let’s move on to the thirtheenth: calm the spirit. which are the most important prescriptions in this category?
18 overviews – 18 categories of herbal prescriptions