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Liver-Warming Decoction

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Liver-Warming Decoction
ChiefRou Gui
    • warms the kidney and liver
    • dispels cold and relieves pain
Warm the kidney and liver.
Dispel cold.
ChiefXiao Hui Xiang
    • warms the liver
    • dispels cold
    • moves qi to relieve pain
Warm the kidney and liver.
Dispel cold.
DeputyDang Gui
    • nourishes blood
    • supplements the liver
Supplement the liver and kidney insufficiency to treat the root.
DeputyGou Qi Zi
    • supplements the liver
    • boosts the kidney
Supplement the liver and kidney insufficiency to treat the root.
DeputyWu Yao
    • acrid warm medicinals to dispel cold
    • move qi to relieve pain
Relieve yin cold pain to treat the branch.
DeputyChen Xiang
    • acrid warm medicinals to dispel cold
    • move qi to relieve pain
Relieve yin cold pain to treat the branch.
AssistantFu Ling
    • percolates dampness
    • fortifies the spleen
AssistantSheng Jiang
    • disperses cold
    • harmonizes the stomach

Liver-Warming DecoctionPrescription Information

Name
Liver-Warming Decoction
Chinese Name

暖肝煎

Classification

Qi-regulating formulas

Combination
Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Dang Gui) 2 qian (6g), Lycii Fructus (Gou Qi Zi) 3 qian (9g), Poria (Fu Ling) 2 qian (6g), Foeniculi Fructus (Xiao Hu) 2 qian (6g), Cinnamomi Cortex (Rou Gui) 1 qian (3g), Linderae Radix (Wu Yao) 2 qian (6g), Aquilariae Lignum Resinatum (Chen Xiang) 1 qian (3g)
Method
Add 3-5 slices of sheng jiang, and prepare as a decoction.
Action
Warms and supplements the liver and kidney, moves qi and relieves pain.
Indication
Nuan Gan Jian is indicated for patterns of liver and kidney insufficiency with cold coagulation in the liver channel. Symptoms include cold pain in the testis, lower abdominal pain, fear of cold, and a preference for warmth. The tongue is pale with a white coating, and the pulse is deep and slow.
Pathogenesis
This formula treats a pattern of liver and kidney insufficiency, lodged cold in the liver channel, and obstruction of qi. Cold is a yin pathogen that characteristically induces contraction. When the liver and kidney are insufficient, cold can easily lodge in the liver channel to cause disharmony and block its qi. The symptoms therefore manifest as cold pain in the testis, lower abdominal pain, and shan qi pain. The treatment is to supplement the liver and kidney, dissipate cold coagulation, and move qi stagnation.
Application
1. Essential pattern differentiation Nuan Gan Jian is commonly indicated for pain of the lower abdomen or testicular pain due to the liver and kidney insufficiency, congealing cold, and qi stagnation. This clinical pattern is marked by testicular pain or lower abdominal pain, fear of cold with a preference to warmth, pale tongue and white coating, deep, slow pulse. 2. Modern applications This formula may be used in the following biomedically defined disorders when the patient shows signs of liver and kidney insufficiency, congealed cold, and qi stagnation: varicocele, orchitis, epididymitis, hydrocele, and inguinal hernia. 3. Cautions and contraindications This formula is contraindicated for patients with heat, redness, swelling and pain of the scrotum caused by damp-heat pouring downwards.
Source
《The Complete Works of [Zhang] Jing-yue》Jing Yue Quan Shu《景嶽全書》

Liver-Warming DecoctionFormulation composition herbal medicine

Fennel Fruit

Fennel Fruit

Foeniculi Fructus
Functions：Opens appetite, moves qi, disperses cold, benefits intestinal tract. Apply to cold in middle-jiao, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, abdominal cold pain, hernia pain, testicle swelling and pain, spleen and stomach qi stagnation, abdominal swelling fullness and pain.
Combined Spicebush Root

Combined Spicebush Root

Linderae Radix
Functions：Moves qi, stops pain, warms kidney, disperses cold.
Cassia Bark

Cassia Bark

Cinnamomi Cortex
Functions：Supplements fire, assists yang, conducts fire to return to its source, scatters cold, relieves pain, invigorates blood, frees channels. Warms spleen and stomach, eliminates cold accumulation, frees blood and veins. Apply to decline of vital gate-fire, cold limbs and weak pulse, yang exhaustion and general exhaustion, diarrhea and stomachache, cold hernia and renal mass, cold pain of waist and knees, menostasis and abdominal mass, dorsal furuncle, multiple abscesses, upward floating of yang in deficiency condition, upper heat and lower cold.
Babury Wolfberry Fruit

Babury Wolfberry Fruit

Lycii Fructus
Functions：Supplements the liver and kidney, boosts essence and brightens the eyes.
Indian Buead|Tuckahoe

Indian Buead|Tuckahoe

Poria
Functions：Promotes urination, leaches out dampness, fortifies the spleen and stomach, calms spirit. Apply to dysuria, edema, phlegm and retained fluid and cough, vomiting, less intake due to deficiency of spleen, diarrhea, and fright and nervous, insomnia and amnesia, spermatorrhea and gonorrhea.
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.
Tambac

Tambac

Aquilariae Lignum Resinatum
Functions：Moves qi and relieves pain, warms the center and stops vomiting, promotes qi absorption and calms panting. Apply to chest and abdominal swelling pain, gastric cold and vomiting and hiccoughs, deficiency of kidney and inability to breathe due to adverse rising of qi.
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