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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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xi xin • radix et rhizoma asari • chinese wild ginger • 细辛
👉 this herb is used for patterns with exterior wind-cold, interior cold, lung damp-phlegm-cold, blocked nasal orficies, wind-cold-damp bi syndrome.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of xi xin
si ni tang • frigid extremities decoction • 四逆汤
👉 the chinese herbal prescription si ni tang is used for heart yang deficiency, kidney yang deficiency with internal cold, shao yin cold, yang ming cold, excess use of diaphoretics in tai yang stage febrile disease leading to loss of yang.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of si ni tang
gan jiang • rhizoma zingiberis • dried ginger rhizome • 干姜
👉 this herb is used for patterns with spleen and stomach yang deficiency, external cold affecting spleen and stomach, lower jiao wind-damp-cold bi, devastated yang with interior cold, lung cold, deficiency cold bleeding.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of gan jiang
li zhong wan = ren shen tang • regulate the middle pill • 理中丸
👉 the chinese herbal prescription dang li zhong wan is used for spleen yang deficiency, middle jiao yang deficiency, upper jiao yang qi deficiency, chest bi syndrome, stomach cold, small intestine deficiency cold, spleen and kidney yang deficiency, bleeding from spleen yang deficiency.
🤕 symptoms indicating the use of li zhong wan
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