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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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6th overview • expel dampness
📜 chinese herbal prescriptions that expel dampness
18 overviews – 18 categories of herbal prescriptions
bai he gu jin tang • lily bulb decoction to preserve the metal • 百合固金汤
👉 the chinese herbal prescription bai he gu jin tang is used for lung and kidney yin xu leading to lung dryness and affecting the collaterals.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of bai he gu jin tang
bai he • bulbus lilii • lily bulb • 百合
👉 this herb is used for patterns with lung yin xu, lung dryness, lung empty-heat, heart-heat/-fire, heart qi xu, heart yin xu, stomach yin xu.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of bai he
zi su ye • folium perillae • purple perilla leaf • 紫苏叶
👉 this herb is used for patterns with external wind-cold, spleen and stomach qi stagnation, plumb stone throat, restless fetus, seafood-/ fishpoisoning.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of zi su ye
xing su san • apricot kernel and perilla leaf powder • 杏苏散
👉 the chinese herbal prescription xing su san is used for externally contracted cool-dryness impairing the lungs function
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of xing su san
5th overview • treat dryness
📜 chinese herbal prescriptions that harmonize
18 overviews – 18 categories of herbal prescriptions
zhi shi • fructus aurantii immaturus • immature bitter orange • 枳实
👉 this herb is used for patterns with qi stagnation, food stagnation, phlem, chest-bi.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of zhi shi
ban xia xie xin tang • pinellia decoction to drain the epigastrium • 半夏泻心汤
👉 the chinese herbal prescription ban xia xie xin tang is used for heat and cold blockage in the middle jiao, upper jiao heat and middle jiao cold, impaired separation of the pure and impure, disharmony between stomach and intestines.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of ban xia xie xin tang