Symmetry-Correcting Powder

Symmetry-Correcting Powder

Typhonii Rhizoma (Bai Fu Zi) equal amount, Bombyx Batryticatus (Bai Jiang Can) equal amount, Scorpio (Quan Xie) equal amount

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder. Take 3g each time with warm wine any time during the day. This formula may also be prepared as a decoction with the appropriate dosages.

Dispels wind and dissolves phlegm, unblocks the collaterals and arrests convulsion.

Qian Zheng San is indicated for wind attacking the channels and collaterals on the head and face characterized by deviation of the mouth and eyes, facial muscle twitch, and a light red tongue body with a white tongue coating.

This is a pattern caused by wind-phlegm blocking the channels and collaterals in the face and head. Patients with a constitution of phlegm turbidity stored in the yangming are attacked by exterior wind at the yangming channel. Wind-phlegm blocking the channels and collaterals on the face and head cause channel stagnation, tendon and muscle malnourishment, then atony. The slackened muscles are pulled by the tense, so there is facial palsy. Excessive wind leads to mobility, so there is spasm in facial muscles. Dispelling wind and dissolving phlegm, unblocking the collaterals, and arresting convulsions should treat wind-phlegm blocking the channels and collaterals.

1. Essential pattern differentiation Qian Zheng San serves as the common formula used to treat wind-phlegm obstructing the head and face. This clinical pattern is marked by sudden onset of facial palsy, pale tongue body with white tongue coating. 2. Modern applications This formula may be used in the following biomedically defined disorders when the patient shows signs of wind-phlegm blocking the channels and collaterals of the face and head: facial palsy, trigeminal neuralgia, or migraine. 3. Cautions and contraindications This formula should not be used to treat facial palsy or hemiplegia due to qi deficiency and blood stasis or internal stirring of liver wind. Bai fu zi and quan xie should not be used in excessive dosages, as they have toxicity.

Zhi Jing San (Spasm-Relieving Powder 止痉散)