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Tea-Mix and Chuanxiong Powder

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Tea-Mix and Chuanxiong Powder
ChiefChuan Xiong
    • dispels wind
    • invigorates blood
    • relieves pain
    • especially effective for treating headaches in the shaoyang and jueyin channels
Increase the actions of scattering wind and relieving pain.
Treat headaches on several different channels.
This combination is often used to treat headaches caused by externally-contracted wind.
DeputyQiang Huo
    • scatters and dissipate wind pathogen
    • relieve headache
    • especially effective for treating taiyang headaches
Increase the actions of scattering wind and relieving pain.
Treat headaches on several different channels.
This combination is often used to treat headaches caused by externally-contracted wind.
DeputyBai Zhi
    • scatters and dissipate wind pathogen
    • relieve headache
    • especially effective for treating yangming headaches
AssistantXi Xin
    • dispels wind to relieve pain
    • especially effective for treating shaoyin headaches
AssistantJing Jie
    • scatter and dissipate pathogenic windr
    • release the exterior
AssistantFang Feng
    • scatter and dissipate pathogenic windr
    • release the exterior
AssistantBo He
    • scatters and dissipates pathogenic wind
    • benefits the head and eyes
    • prevents warm-dry medicinals from producing side effects at high dosages
AssistantQing Cha
    • causes the clear yang to ascend
    • directs the turbid yin to descend
    • benefits the head and eyes
This medicinal is combined with medicinals that dispel wind.
Clearing within warming.
Descending within ascending.
Moderates the undesirable side effects caused by warm, dry and ascending, scattering medicinals that dispel wind.
EnvoyGan Cao
    • harmonizes the center and the actions of the other medicinals in this formula

Tea-Mix and Chuanxiong PowderPrescription Information

Name
Tea-Mix and Chuanxiong Powder
Chinese Name

川芎茶调散

Classification

Wind-calming formulas

Combination
Chuanxiong Rhizoma (Chuan Xiong) 4 liang (120g), Schizonepetae Herba (Jie Geng) 4 liang (120g), Angelicae Dahuricae Radix (Bai Zhi) 2 liang (60g), Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix (Qiang Huo) 2 liang (60g), Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Gan Cao) 2 liang (60g), Asari Radix et Rhizoma (Xi Xin) 1 liang (30g), Saposhnikoviae Radix (Fang Feng) 1.5 liang (45g), Menthae Haplocalycis Herba (Bo He) 8 liang (240g)
Method
Grind the ingredients into a fine powder. Take 6g infused in green tea after meals each time, 3 times a day. It can also be prepared as a decoction by dosing the medicinals based on their original ratios.
Action
Scatters wind and relieves pain.
Indication
Chuan Xiong Cha Tiao San is indicated for headaches caused by externally-contracted wind. The symptoms are headache in any part of the head, dizzy vision, and nasal congestion possibly accompanied by aversion to wind and fever. The tongue coating is thin and white, and the pulse is floating.
Pathogenesis
This is a pattern of externally-contracted wind that has caused a headache. Pathogenic wind attacks the exterior and travels upward along the channels to the head and eyes. There it obstructs the clear yang qi and the flow of qi and blood in the channel, causing a headache, dizzy vision, and nasal congestion. As pathogenic wind may affect different channels, the headache may occur in different parts of the head (frontal, temporal, occipital, or vertex). Aversion to wind and fever indicate that exterior wind has invaded the exterior. A thin, white tongue coating and a floating pulse are indications of externally-contracted wind. Externally-contracted wind produces the headache. The therapeutic principles used to remedy this pattern are to scatter and dissipate wind in order to relieve pain.
Application
1. Essential pattern differentiation Chuan Xiong Cha Tiao San serves as the common formula used to treat headaches caused by externally-contracted wind pathogens. This clinical pattern is marked by headache, nasal congestion, thin white tongue coating, floating pulse. 2. Modern applications This formula may be used in the following biomedically defined disorders when the patient shows signs of headache due to externally-contracted wind: headache resulting from rheum, migraine, cluster headache syndrome, and chronic rhinitis. 3. Cautions and contraindications It is not applicable for patients diagnosed with headache due to internal damage.
Additonal formulae
Ju Hua Cha Tiao San (Tea-Mix and Chrysanthemum Powder 菊花茶调散)
Source
《Formulas from the Imperial Pharmacy》Tai Ping Hui Min He Ji Ju Fang《太平惠民和劑局方》

Tea-Mix and Chuanxiong PowderFormulation composition herbal medicine

Manchurian Wildginger Herb

Manchurian Wildginger Herb

Asari Radix et Rhizoma
Functions：Resolvers exterior, disperses cold, dispels wind, stops pain, warms lung, transforms fluids, frees nose. Apply to exterior disease induced by pathogenic wind-cold, headache, toothache, wind-damp impediment, dyspnea with cough due to phlegm and retained fluids, nasal obstruction, rhinorrhea with turbid discharge, mouth sore.
Incised Notopterygium Rhizome and Root

Incised Notopterygium Rhizome and Root

Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix
Functions：Disperses exterior cold, dispels wind damp, promotes joints, stops pain. Apply to exterior wind cold, headache without sweating, wind-cold and damp impediment, wind edema, sore and ulcer swelling 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.
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.
Szechwan Lovage Rhizome

Szechwan Lovage Rhizome

Chuanxiong Rhizoma
Functions：Invigorates the blood, eliminates stasis, moves qi, opens stagnation, dispels wind, relieves pain. Apply to chest impediment and heartache, chest pain, swollen pain of falls wound, irregular menses, amenorrhea, dysmenorrheal, abdominal mass and pain, headache, wind-damp impediment.
Wild Mint Herb

Wild Mint Herb

Menthae Haplocalycis Herba
Functions：Disperses wind-heat clears the head and eyes, benefits the throat, vents rashes, courses the liver and resolves constraint. Apply to wind-heat cold, headache, throat pain, mouth and tongue sore, rubella, measles, chest and abdominal constraint, anti-early pregnancy. Disperses inflammation and stops pain.
Taiwan Angelica Root

Taiwan Angelica Root

Angelicae Dahuricae Radix
Functions：Removing rheumatism, activate blood, clearing pus, engendering skin, relieving pain. Apply to headache, toothache, persistent turbid nasal discharge, anal fistula due to intestine wind, red and white leucorrhea, ulcer and sore, skin itch.
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