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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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zhi bao dan • greatest treasure special pill • 至寶丹
👉 the chinese herbal prescription zhi bao dan is used for wen bing ying-level heat attacking the pericard and affecting the shen, phlegm-heat closed-disorder, summerheat-stroke, wind-stroke, infantile epilepsy and seizures from phlegm-heat.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of zhi bao dan
15th overview • open the orifices
📜 chinese herbal prescriptions that open the orifices.
the first cycle of the fourteenth category is done. let’s move on to the fiftheenth: open the orifices. which are the most important prescriptions in this category?
18 overviews – 18 categories of herbal prescriptions
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