Immortal Formula Life-Giving Beverage

Immortal Formula Life-Giving Beverage

Angelicae Dahuricae Radix (Bai Zhi) 6 fen (3g), Manis Squama (Chuan Shan Jia) 1 qian (6g), Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma(Gan Cao) 1 qian (6g), Saposhnikoviae Radix (Fang Feng) 1 qian (6g), Myrrha (Mo Yao) 1 qian (6g), Paeoniae Radix Rubra (Chi Shao) 1 qian (6g), Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Dang Gui Wei) 1 qian (6g), Olibanum (Ru Xiang) 1 qian (6g), Fritillariae Bulbus (Bei Mu) 1 qian (6g), Trichosanthis Radix (Tian Hua Fen) 1 qian (6g), Gleditsiae Spina (Zao Jiao Ci) 1 qian (6g), Lonicerae Japonicae Flos (Jin Yin Hua) 3 qian (9g), Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium (Chen Pi) 3 qian (9g)

Decoct one dose of the formula with three bowls of Chinese wine, and boil it down to one and a half bowls. Take the decoction after meals for diseases in the upper part of the body. Take the decoction before meals for diseases in the lower part of the body, and then take three or four cups of Chinese wine to enhance the power of the decoction.

Clears heat, resolves toxins, disperses swelling, promotes suppuration, invigorates blood, and relieves pain.

This formula is indicated for yang patterns in the initial stage with sores, abscesses, and ulcers. The symptoms are redness, swelling, and pain in the affected areas, fear of cold with fever, a thin white or yellow tongue coating, and a forceful, rapid pulse.

This is an initial stage of a yang pattern with sores, abscesses, and ulcers mainly caused by the accumulation and obstruction of heat toxins, as well as, qi stagnation, blood stasis, and phlegm coagulation. The heat toxins accumulate and obstruct causing a tangible accumulation of qi stagnation and blood stasis, which manifest as redness, swelling, and pain in the affected areas. The pathogenic qi struggles with the healthy qi in the fleshy exterior, causing fear of cold with fever and the intense pathogenic qi and healthy qi struggle within the channels, causing a forceful, rapid pulse. As the nature of the disease is a yang pattern of stagnant heat toxins in the fleshy exterior, the primary therapeutic method is to clear heat, resolve toxins, invigorate the blood, and regulate qi. The secondary method is to free the fleshy exterior, disperse swelling, and promote suppuration.

1. Essential pattern differentiation Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin is a commonly used formula used to treat the initial stages of yang patterns with sores, abscesses, and ulcers. This clinical pattern is marked by redness, swelling, and pain in the affected areas, fear of cold with fever, and a forceful, rapid pulse. 2. Modern applications This formula may be used in the following biomedically defined disorders, when the patient has a yang pattern or an excessive pattern of suppurative inflammation: cellulitis, suppurative tonsillitis, mastitis, impetigo, boils, and deep abscesses. 3. Cautions and contraindications This formula should be used during the initial stage of a yang pattern with sores, abscesses, and ulcers in those with an excess-type constitution. If the formula is used properly, “those (sores, abscesses, and ulcers) without pus will dissipate, and those (sores, abscesses, and ulcers) with pus will drain.” Do not use this formula for those with open sores, abscesses, and ulcers. For patients who do not like alcohol, decoct the formula with water, or with half Chinese wine and half water. In addition to the decoction, the medicinals in this formula can be ground into powder and applied to the affected areas. Since the nature of medicinals in this formula is primarily cool-cold, use the formula with caution in patients who have sores, abscesses, and ulcers in a yin pattern, as well as, those with spleen, stomach, qi, and blood deficiency.

1. Wu Wei Xiao Du Yin (Five Ingredients Toxin-Removing Beverage, 五味消毒飲)

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