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Gastrodia and Uncaria Decoction

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Gastrodia and Uncaria Decoction

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Name

Gastrodia and Uncaria Decoction

Chinese Name

天麻钩藤饮

Classification

Wind-calming formulas

Combination

Gastrodiae Rhizoma (Tian Ma) 9g, Uncariae Ramulus cum Uncis (Gou Teng) 12g, Haliotidis Concha (Sheng Jue Ming) 18g, Gardeniae Fructus (Shan Zhi) 9g, Scutellariae Radix (Huang Qin) 9g, Cyathulae Radix (Chuan Niu Xi) 12g, Eucommiae Cortex (Du Zhong) 9g, Leonuri Herba (Yi Mu Cao) 9g, Taxilli Herba (Sang Ji Sheng) 9g, Polygoni Multiflori Caulis (Ye Jiao Teng) 9g, Poriae Pararadicis Sclerotium (Zhu Fu Shen) 9g

Method

Prepare as a decoction.

Action

Calms the liver and extinguishes wind, clears heat and invigorates blood, supplements and boosts the liver and kidney.

Indication

Tian Ma Gou Teng Yin is indicated for patterns of hyperactive liver yang and ascending liver wind. The symptoms are headache, dizziness and vertigo, insomnia with profuse dreaming; or a bitter taste in the mouth, flushed face, a red tongue with a yellow tongue coating, and a wiry or rapid pulse.

Pathogenesis

Liver and kidney deficiency with hyperactive liver yang generating wind and heat is the cause of this pattern. Hyperactive liver yang leads to ascending wind that harasses the upper body and causes headache and vertigo. Excessive liver yang generates heat that harasses the heart resulting in irritability, insomnia, and excessive dreaming. A red tongue body with a yellow coating and a wiry, rapid pulse are the signs of hyperactive yang generating heat. The root of this syndrome is deficiency and the branch is excess, although the branch is more pronounced. Therefore, the treatment emphasizes calming the liver to extinguish wind, while clearing wind to calm the mind and nourishing liver and kidney assist.

Application

1. Essential pattern differentiation Tian Ma Gou Teng Yin serves as the common formula used to treat hyperactive liver yang and liver wind harassing the upper body. This clinical pattern is marked by headache, vertigo, insomnia, red tongue body with yellow tongue coating, wiry pulse. 2. Modern applications This formula may be used in the following biomedically defined disorders when the patient shows signs of ascending hyperactive liver yang or liver wind harassing the upper body: hypertension, cerebrovascular accident, and auditory vertigo.

Remark

Euconmmia ( Eucommia ulmoides ) is listed as "Vulnerable" in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.

Source

《Newly Explained Diagnosis and Treatment of TCM Internal Medicine and Miscellaneous Diseases》Zhong Yi Nei Ke Za Bing Zheng Zhi Xin Yi《中醫內科雜病證治新義》

Gastrodia and Uncaria DecoctionFormulation composition herbal medicine

Common Gardenia Fruit

Common Gardenia Fruit

Gardeniae Fructus

Functions：Drains fire, eliminates vexation, clears heat, promotes urination, cools blood, resolves toxin. Apply to deficient restlessness due to pyreticosis, conjunctival congestion due to liver fire, headache, jaundice due to damp-heat, strangury, hematodiarrhoea, hematuria, mouth and tongue sore, swelling pain of sore and ulcer, swelling pains caused by sprains.

Common Motherwort Herb

Common Motherwort Herb

Functions：Invigorates blood, dispels stasis, adjusts menstruation, eliminates water. Apply to irregular menses, vaginal bleeding during pregnancy and difficult labor, retention of afterbirth, postpartum anemic fainting, bloody phlegm and stomachache, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, hematuria, bloody diarrhea, furuncles and ulcers.

Tall Gastrodiae

Tall Gastrodiae

Gastrodiae Rhizoma

Functions：Extinguishes wind, relieves tetany, calms liver, lowbears yang, dispels wind, frees channels.

Sea-ear Shell

Haliotidis Concha

Functions：Calms liver, subdues yang, clears liver, brightens eyes. Apply to headache and dizziness, red eye and eye screen, blur vision, glaucoma and night blindness.

Chinese Taxillus Herb

Chinese Taxillus Herb

Functions：Dispels wind-damp, supplements liver and kidney, strengthens sinew and bone, secures fetus.

Baikal Skullcap Root

Baikal Skullcap Root

Scutellariae Radix

Functions：Clears heat, dries dampness, drains fire, resolves toxin, stops bleeding, calms fetus, reduces blood pressure. Apply to damp-warm diseases, chest retention and vomiting due to summer-warm, retention and fullness due to damp and heat, diarrhea, jaundice, cough with lung heat, polydipsia with high fever, hematemesis and non-traumatic hemorrhage due to blood heat, abscess and sore toxin, fetal movement.

Sharpleaf Uncaria Stem with Hools

Sharpleaf Uncaria Stem with Hools

Uncariae Ramulus cum Uncis

Functions：Clears heat, calms the liver, extinguishes wind, relieves tentany. Apply to infantile frightened epilepsy, night cry, exuberating heat stirring wind, eclampsia, dizzing due to liver yang, head swelling pain due to liver fire.

Eucommia Bark

Eucommiae Cortex

Functions：Supplements the live and kidney, strengthens sinew and bone, calms the fetus. Apply to aching pain in the loins and knees, weakness of legs and knees, drenching and unsmooth urination, vaginal dampness and itch, fetal leakage and abortion, restless fetal movement, hypertension.

Medicinal Cyathula officinalis Root

Medicinal Cyathula officinalis Root

Cyathulae Radix

Functions：Expels stasis, frees menstruation, benefits the joints, promotes moist urination, frees strangury. Apply to amenorrhea and abdominal mass, lacenta retension, joint impediment, foot paralysis and tendon spasms, hematuria and bloody stranguria, falls wounds.

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