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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 👩⚕️🤝👨⚕️
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dang gui • radix angelicae sinensis • chinese angelica root • 当归
👉 this herb is used for patterns with any kind of blood deficiency, especially gnyaecological, blood stasis, dry intestines, constipation, chronic wind-damp-bi with blood deficiency.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of dang gui
dang gui si ni tang • tangkuei decoction for frigid extremities • 當歸四逆湯
👉 the chinese herbal prescription dang gui si ni tang is used for cold in the channels and blood deficiency, poor circulation of qi and blood, jue yin cold
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of dang gui si ni tang
7th overview • warm interior cold
📜 chinese herbal prescriptions that warm interior cold
18 overviews – 18 categories of herbal prescriptions
qiang huo • radix notopterygii • notopterygium root • 羌活
👉 this herb is used for patterns with external wind-cold with dampness, wind-cold-damp bi syndrome, and to guide herbs to the tai yang level and the du mai.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of qiang huo
qiang huo sheng shi tang • notopterygium decoction to overcome dampness • 羌活胜湿汤
👉 the chinese herbal prescription qiang huo sheng shi tang is used for external wind-dampness
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of qiang huo sheng shi tang
bai zhu • rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae • white atractylodis rhizome • 白术
👉 this herb is used for patterns with spleen and stomach deficiency, dampness or fluid accumulation from spleen deficiency, wei qi deficiency.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of bai zhu
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