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Lily Bulb Metal-Securing Decoction

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Lily Bulb Metal-Securing Decoction
ChiefBai He
    • sweet, bitter and mildly cold
    • nourishes yin and clears heat
    • moistens the lung to relieve cough
A common combination to nourish yin and moisten the lung.
ChiefSheng Di
    • used together to enrich yin and nourish blood
    • clear heat and cool blood
A common combination to nourish yin and moisten the lung.
ChiefShu Di
    • used together to enrich yin and nourish blood
    • clear heat and cool blood
A common combination to nourish yin and moisten the lung.
DeputyMai Dong
    • sweet and cold
    • combines with bai he to nourish yin
    • clears heat, moistens the lung to relieve cough
A common combination to enrich yin and promot fluid production.
DeputyXuan Shen
    • salty and cold
    • helps sheng di and shu di to nourish yin
    • drains fire and improves the condition of the throat
A common combination to enrich yin and promot fluid production.
AssistantDang Gui
    • treats cough with counterflow qi ascent
Dang gui and bei mu are often used in combination to treat cough with counterflow qi, moisten the lung, and dissolve phlegm.
AssistantBai Shao
    • combines with dang gui to nourish and harmonize blood
Dang gui and bei mu are often used in combination to treat cough with counterflow qi, moisten the lung, and dissolve phlegm.
AssistantBei Mu
    • clears heat and moistens the lung
    • dissolves phlegm and relieves cough
Dang gui and bei mu are often used in combination to treat cough with counterflow qi, moisten the lung, and dissolve phlegm.
Assistant&EnvoyJie Geng
    • diffuses the lung and improves the condition of the throat
    • dissolves phlegm and dissipated masses
    • carries medicinals upward
The combination of jie geng and gan cao is often used to diffuse the lung and improve the condition of the throat.
Assistant&EnvoySheng Gan Cao
    • clears heat and purges fire
    • harmonizes the other ingredients
The combination of jie geng and gan cao is often used to diffuse the lung and improve the condition of the throat.

Lily Bulb Metal-Securing DecoctionPrescription Information

Name
Lily Bulb Metal-Securing Decoction
Chinese Name

百合固金汤

Classification

Dryness-moistening formulas

Combination
Rehmanniae Radix Praeparata (Shu Di Huang) 3 qian (9g), Rehmanniae Radix (Sheng Di) 3 qian (9g), Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Dang Gui) 3 qian (9g), Paeoniae Radix Alba (Bai Shao) 1 qian (6g), Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Gan Cao) 1 qian (3g), Platycodonis Radix (Jie Geng) 8 fen (6g), Scrophulariae Radix (Xuan Shen) 1.5 qian (3g), Fritillariae Bulbus (Bei Mu) 1.5 qian (6g), Ophiopogonis Radix (Mai Dong) 1.5 qian (9g), Lilii Bulbus (Bai He) 1.5 qian (12g)
Method
Prepare the ingredients as a decoction.
Action
Enriches and nourishes the lung and kidney, relieves cough and dissolves phlegm.
Indication
Bai He Gu Jin Tang is indicated for a pattern of lung-kidney yin deficiency with deficiency fire flaming upward. The symptoms are coughing, labored breathing, blood in the sputum, dry and sore throat, dizziness and blurred vision, afternoon tidal fever. The tongue is red with scanty coating, and the pulse is thready and rapid.
Pathogenesis
This pattern results from yin deficiency of the lung and kidney. The lung is the mother of the kidney so lung deficiency often affects the kidney to cause yin deficiency of both the lung and kidney due to protracted disease. Yin deficiency leads to internal heat and deficiency fire flaming upward, causing the failure of the lung to purify and descend, and produce coughing and labored breathing. Deficiency fire scorches body fluids and causes a dry, sore throat and an afternoon tidal fever. Vessels are scorched which causes blood in the sputum. Suitable therapeutic methods include nourishing the yin-blood of the lung and kidney combined with clearing heat, dissolving phlegm and relieving cough. The purpose is to treat the root and branch simultaneously.
Application
1. Essential pattern differentiation This formula is commonly used to treat lung-kidney yin deficiency with deficiency fire flaming upward to cause coughing with blood in the sputum. This clinical pattern is marked by cough, labored breathing, dry and sore throat, red tongue with scanty coating, thready and rapid pulse. 2. Modern applications This formula is commonly used in the following biomedically defined disorders when the patient shows signs of lung-kidney yin deficiency with deficiency fire flaming upward: tuberculosis, chronic bronchitis, expectoration of blood caused by bronchiectasis, chronic pharyngo-laryngitis, and spontaneous pneumothorax.
Additonal formulae
Bu Fei E Jiao Tang (Lung-Supplementing Donkey-Hide Gelatin Decoction 补肺阿胶汤)
Source
《Medical Theory of Master of Meditation Room》Shen Zhai Yi Shu《慎齋遺書》

Lily Bulb Metal-Securing DecoctionFormulation composition herbal medicine

Figwort Root

Figwort Root

Scrophulariae Radix
Functions：Clears heat, cools blood, drains fire, resolves toxin, nourishes yin. Apply to damp evil entering construction and the pericardium, warm toxin inducing eruptions, heat disease damaging yin, dark red tongue and vexation, damage of fluid and constipation, bone steaming and over-strained cough, red eye, throat pain, scrofula, diphtheritic, swelling abscess and sore toxin.
Dwarf Lilyturf Root Tuber

Dwarf Lilyturf Root Tuber

Ophiopogonis Radix
Functions：Nourishes yin, engenders fluid, moistens lung, stops cough, clear heart, eliminates vexation. Apply to damage of body fluid due to heat disease, vexation, thirst, dry throat due to lung heat, cough, and tuberculosis.
Balloonflower Root

Balloonflower Root

Platycodonis Radix
Functions：Diffuses the lung, eliminates phlegm, promotes throat, expels pus, promotes five internal organs, supplements five qi, supplements five taxations, nourishes qi. Apply to cough excessive phlegm, swelling pharyngalgia, pulmonary abscess and pyemesis, chest fullness and hypochondrium pain, diarrhea with pain, mouth and tongue sore, red eye and swelling pain, retention of urine.
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.
Adhesive Rehmannia Root Tuber

Adhesive Rehmannia Root Tuber

Rehmanniae Radix
Functions：Xian di huang: Clears heat, engenders fluids, cools blood, stops bleeding. Sheng di haung: clears heat, cools blood, nourishes yin, and engenders fluids. Shu di huang: nourishes yin, supplements bloods, boosts essence, and fills the marrow. Apply to yin deficiency and hectic fever, diabetes, hematemesis, non-traumatic hemorrhage, metrorrhagia, irregular menstruation, threatened miscarriage, diarrhea due to yin damage.
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.
White Peony Root

White Peony Root

Paeoniae Radix Alba
Functions：Nourishes the blood, regulates menstruation, calms the liver, relieve pain, astringes yin, stops sweating. Apply to thoracic, abdominal and costal pains, abdominal pain due to dysentery, spontaneous perspiration and night sweat, fever with yin deficiency, irregular menstrual periods, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, leukorrhea.
Greenish lily Bulb|Liy Bulb

Greenish lily Bulb|Liy Bulb

Lilii Bulbus
Functions：Nourishes yin, moistens the lung, clear the heart, calms the spirit. Apply to lingering cough induced by yin deficiency, bloody sputum, deficient restlessness and terror, insomnia and dreaminess, absent-mindedness.
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