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Wind-Dispersing Powder

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Wind-Dispersing Powder
ChiefJing Jie
    • scatter wind and dissipate pathogens
    • pruritus is relieved when the wind is gone
Combination of the wind-scattering method, dampness-eliminating method, and heat-clearing method.
ChiefFang Feng
    • scatter wind and dissipate pathogens
    • pruritus is relieved when the wind is gone
Combination of the wind-scattering method, dampness-eliminating method, and heat-clearing method.
ChiefNiu Bang Zi
    • scatter wind and dissipate pathogens
    • pruritus is relieved when the wind is gone
Combination of the wind-scattering method, dampness-eliminating method, and heat-clearing method.
ChiefChan Tui
    • scatter wind and dissipate pathogens
    • pruritus is relieved when the wind is gone
Combination of the wind-scattering method, dampness-eliminating method, and heat-clearing method.
DeputyCang Zhu
    • dispels wind and dries dampness
Combination of the wind-scattering method, dampness-eliminating method, and heat-clearing method.
DeputyKu Shen
    • clears heat and dries dampness
Combination of the wind-scattering method, dampness-eliminating method, and heat-clearing method.
DeputyMu Tong
    • percolates and drains damp-heat
Combination of the wind-scattering method, dampness-eliminating method, and heat-clearing method.
DeputyShi Gao
    • clear heat and drain fire
Combination of the wind-scattering method, dampness-eliminating method, and heat-clearing method.
DeputyZhi Mu
    • clear heat and drain fire
Combination of the wind-scattering method, dampness-eliminating method, and heat-clearing method.
AssistantDang Gui
    • nourishes and moves blood
Treat blood before treating wind, and the wind will disperse automatically when blood moves.
AssistantSheng Di
    • cools blood and nourishes yin
Treat blood before treating wind, and the wind will disperse automatically when blood moves.
AssistantHu Ma
    • nourishes yin and moistens dryness
Treat blood before treating wind, and the wind will disperse automatically when blood moves.

Wind-Dispersing PowderPrescription Information

Name
Wind-Dispersing Powder
Chinese Name

消风散

Classification

Wind-calming formulas

Combination
Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Dang Gui) 1 qian (6g), Rehmanniae Radix (Sheng Di) 1 qian (6g), Saposhnikoviae Radix (Fang Feng) 1 qian (6g), Cicadae Periostracum (Chan Tui) 1 qian (6g), Anemarrhenae Rhizoma (Zhi Mu) 1 qian (6g), Sophorae Flavescentis Radix (Ku Shen) 1 qian (6g), Cannabis Fructus (Hu Ma) 1 qian (6g), Schizonepetae Herba (Jing Jie) 1 qian (6g), Atractylodis Rhizoma (Cang Zhu) 1 qian (6g), Arctii Fructus (Niu Bang Zi) 1 qian (6g), Gypsum Fibrosum (Shi Gao) 1 qian (6g), Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Gan Cao) 0.5 qian (3g), Akebiae Caulis (Mu Tong) 0.5 qian (3g)
Method
Prepare the ingredients as a decoction.
Action
Scatters wind and eliminates dampness, clears heat and nourishes the blood.
Indication
Xiao Feng San is indicated for rubella and eczema. The symptoms are itching skin, red rashes that affect a large part of the body, fluids that leak upon scratching, a white or yellow tongue coating, and a superficial, rapid pulse.
Pathogenesis
This formula treats rubella and eczema caused by wind-heat or wind-dampness trapped between the skin, striae, and interstices. Wind, dampness, and heat invade the body and settle in the blood vessels where it is unable to vent externally or drain internally. The symptoms are itching skin, red rashes, fluids that leak upon scratching. The appropriate treatment is to scatter wind, clear heat, and eliminate dampness; scattering wind is the primary method and clearing heat and eliminating dampness are secondary.
Application
1. Essential pattern differentiation Xiao Feng San serves as the common formula used to treat rubella and eczema. This clinical pattern is marked by pruritus, red measles, floating pulse. 2. Modern applications This formula may be used in the following biomedically defined disorders when the patient shows signs and symptoms of wind-heat or wind-damp patterns: acute urticaria, eczema, allergic dermatitis, paddy field dermatitis, drug-induced dermatitis, and neurodermatitis. 3. Cautions and contraindications This formula should not be used to treat rubella due to deficient cold. During the course of treatment, patients are forbidden to take spicy, seafood, cigarettes, wine, or strong tea to ensure good efficacy.
Source
《Orthodox Lineage of External Medicine》Wai Ke Zheng Zong《外科正宗》

Wind-Dispersing PowderFormulation composition herbal medicine

Common Anemarrhena

Common Anemarrhena

Anemarrhenae Rhizoma
Functions：Clears heat, drains fire, engenders fluid, moistens dryness. Apply to exterior heat diseases, high fever and polydipsia, lung heat with cough, stomach heat and diabetes, dryness of lung and cough, constipation due to dry intestines, bone steaming and hot flashes.
Gypsum

Gypsum

Gypsum Fibrosum
Functions：Clears heat, drains fire, eliminates vexation, relieves thirst. Apply to exterior heat diseases, vexation with high fever, cough and panting due to lung heat, excessive stomach fire, headache, toothache.
Great Burdock Fruit

Great Burdock Fruit

Arctii Fructus
Functions：Dispels wind heat, diffuses lung and outthrusts rashes, resolves toxin and benefits throat. Apply to wind-heat type common cold, cough with phlegm, measles and rashes, throat swelling and pain, mumps erysipelas, abscess and sore swelling and toxin.
Akabia Stem

Akabia Stem

Akebiae Caulis
Functions：Clears heat, promotes urination, invigorates blood, frees channels. Apply to dark urine, edema, vexation and heat in chest, throat pain, mouth and tongue sore, wind-damp impediment, insufficient milk, amenorrhea, dysmenorrheal.
Lightyellow Sophra Root

Lightyellow Sophra Root

Sophorae Flavescentis Radix
Functions：Clears heat, dries dampness, dispels wind, kills worms. Apply to diarrhea due to damp heat, hematochezia due to intestine wind, jaundice, dysuria, edema, vaginal discharge, vaginal itch, abscess and tinea, lepra, skin itch, sore with damp toxin.
Fineleaf Schizonepeta Herb

Fineleaf Schizonepeta Herb

Schizonepetae Herba
Functions：Resolves the exterior, disperses wind, vents rashes, eliminates sore, stops bleeding. Apply to common cold, measles without adequate eruption, hemafecia, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, epistaxis.
Hemp Fruit

Hemp Fruit

Cannabis Fructus
Functions：Moistens the intestine, frees stools. Apply to body fluid deficiency due to hematopenia, constipation induced by dryness of the intestine.
Liquorice Root

Liquorice Root

Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma
Functions：Supplements the spleen, boosts qi, clears heat, resolves toxin, dispels phlegm, relieves cough, relaxes tension, relieves pain, harmonizes the nature of other medicinals.
Divaricate Saposhnikovia

Divaricate Saposhnikovia

Saposhnikoviae Radix
Functions：Dispels wind to release the exterior pattern, dispels dampness and relieve pain, arrests convulsions. Apply to exterior syndrome due to wind-cold, headache, dizziness, rigid neck, rheumatic arthralgia with wind-cold, joint pain and sour, convulsion of limbs, tetanus.
Adhesive Rehmannia Root Tuber

Adhesive Rehmannia Root Tuber

Rehmanniae Radix
Functions：Xian di huang: Clears heat, engenders fluids, cools blood, stops bleeding. Sheng di haung: clears heat, cools blood, nourishes yin, and engenders fluids. Shu di huang: nourishes yin, supplements bloods, boosts essence, and fills the marrow. Apply to yin deficiency and hectic fever, diabetes, hematemesis, non-traumatic hemorrhage, metrorrhagia, irregular menstruation, threatened miscarriage, diarrhea due to yin damage.
Chinese Angelica

Chinese Angelica

Angelicae Sinensis Radix
Functions：Supplements the blood, invigorates the blood, regulates menstruation, relieves pain, moistens the intestines, frees the stool. Apply to chlorosis due to hemopenia, vertigo and palpitation, irregular menstrual periods, amenorrhea and painful menstruation, deficiency cold abdominalgia, constipation induced by dryness of the intestine, rheumatic arthralgia, injuries from falls, superficial infection and burns and scalds.
Cicada Slough

Cicada Slough

Cicadae Periostracum
Functions：Scatters wind and eliminates heat, benefits the throat, vents rashes, relieves eye screens, resolves tetany. Apply to win-hot cold, throat pain, hoarse voice, rashes, rubella, red eyes and eye screen, convulsion, tetanus.
Swordlike Atracylodes Rhizome

Swordlike Atracylodes Rhizome

Atractylodis Rhizoma
Functions：Dries dampness, fortifies the spleen, dispels wind, disperses cold, and brightens the eyes. Chest congestion and abdominal distention, diarrhea and edema, beriberi and paralysis, wind and dampness impediment, wind-cold, caecitas nocturna.
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