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Stomach-Boosting Decoction

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Stomach-Boosting Decoction
ChiefSheng Di
    • sweet flavor and cold nature
    • nourish yin and clear heat
    • promote fluid production to moisten dryness
The combination is often used to nourish yin and clear heat.
ChiefMai Dong
    • sweet flavor and cold nature
    • nourish yin and clear heat
    • promote fluid production to moisten dryness
The combination is often used to nourish yin and clear heat.
DeputyBei Sha Shen
    • nourish yin
    • boost the stomach
    • promote fluid production
The combination is often used to boost the stomach, nourish yin, and promote fluid production.
DeputyYu Zhu
    • nourish yin
    • boost the stomach
    • promote fluid production
The combination is often used to boost the stomach, nourish yin, and promote fluid production.
Assistant&EnvoyBing Tang
    • nourishes the lung and stomach
    • harmonizes the other medicinals

Stomach-Boosting DecoctionPrescription Information

Name
Stomach-Boosting Decoction
Chinese Name

益胃汤

Classification

Dryness-moistening formulas

Combination
Glehniae Radix (Bei Sha Shen) 3 qian (9g), Ophiopogonis Radix (Mai Dong) 5 qian (15g), Saccharon Crystallinum (Bing Tang) 1 qian (3g), Rehmanniae Radix (Sheng Di) 5 qian (15g), Polygonati Odorati Rhizoma (Yu Zhu) 1.5 qian (4.5g)
Method
The source text states to cook the ingredients with 5 cups of water until the decoction is reduced to 2 cups. Take the strained decoction twice a day and then decoct the dregs again and take 1 cup. (Modern use: prepare the ingredients as a decoction).
Action
Nourishes yin and boosts the stomach.
Indication
Yi Wei Tang is indicated for stomach yin damage. The symptoms include a burning sensation and dull pain in the gastric cavity, hunger with no desire to eat, dry mouth and throat, and dry stool. The tongue is red with scanty coating, and the pulse is thready and rapid.
Pathogenesis
The stomach is yang earth. It likes moistness and dislikes dryness. It governs the intake of food and drinks and the stomach qi governs descent. The consumption of stomach yin and internal deficiency-heat is often caused by the following conditions:
Application
1. Essential pattern differentiation Yi Wei Tang is commonly used to nourish the stomach yin. This clinical pattern is marked by burning sensation and dull pain within gastric cavity, poor appetite, dry mouth and throat, red tongue with scanty coating, thin and rapid pulse. 2. Modern applications This formula is commonly used in the following biomedically defined disorders when the patient shows signs of stomach yin deficiency: chronic gastritis, diabetes and infantile anorexia.
Additonal formulae
Yu Ye Tang (Jade Humor Decoction 玉液汤)
Source
《Systematic Differentiation of Warm Diseases》Wen Bing Tiao Bian《溫病條辨》

Stomach-Boosting DecoctionFormulation composition herbal medicine

Fragrant Solomonseal Rhizome

Fragrant Solomonseal Rhizome

Polygonati Odorati Rhizoma
Functions：Nourishes yin, moistens lung, nourishes stomach, engenders fluid. Apply to dry cough, strained cough, dry throat and thirst due to damage of yin and fluid caused by febrile disease, diabetes due to inner heat, and exterior disease due to yin deficiency, dizziness and vertigo, spasm pain of sinew.
Dwarf Lilyturf Root Tuber

Dwarf Lilyturf Root Tuber

Ophiopogonis Radix
Functions：Nourishes yin, engenders fluid, moistens lung, stops cough, clear heart, eliminates vexation. Apply to damage of body fluid due to heat disease, vexation, thirst, dry throat due to lung heat, cough, and tuberculosis.
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.
Coastal Glehnia Root

Coastal Glehnia Root

Glehniae Radix
Functions：Nourishes yin, clears the lung, boosts the stomach, and engenders fluid. Apply to lung heat and dry-cough, pulmondeficiency due to long term cough with blood, hydrodipsia due to heat and fluid-damage.
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