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Arrest Wheezing Decoction

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Arrest Wheezing Decoction
ChiefMa Huang
    • diffuses the lung and relieves panting
    • releases and dissipates exterior pathogens
Opposite and complementary, one disperses and one astringes.
Together they enhance the function to relieve panting, diffuse the lung, and dissipate exterior pathogens, without consuming qi.
Astringe the lung and relieve panting without retaining the pathogen.
ChiefBai Guo
    • astringes the lung and relieves panting
    • dispels phlegm and relieves cough
Opposite and complementary, one disperses and one astringes.
Together they enhance the function to relieve panting, diffuse the lung, and dissipate exterior pathogens, without consuming qi.
Astringe the lung and relieve panting without retaining the pathogen.
DeputySang Bai Pi
    • drains the lung and relieves panting
Disperse phlegm-heat accumulation.
DeputyHuang Qin
    • clears heat and dissolves phlegm
Disperse phlegm-heat accumulation.
AssistantSu Zi
    • direct qi downward, dissolve phlegm, and relieve panting and cough
Assist the chief and deputy to dissolve phlegm and relieve panting.
AssistantXing Ren
    • direct qi downward, dissolve phlegm, and relieve panting and cough
Assist the chief and deputy to dissolve phlegm and relieve panting.
AssistantBan Xia
    • direct qi downward, dissolve phlegm, and relieve panting and cough
Assist the chief and deputy to dissolve phlegm and relieve panting.
AssistantKuan Dong Hua
    • direct qi downward, dissolve phlegm, and relieve panting and cough
Assist the chief and deputy to dissolve phlegm and relieve panting.
Assistant&EnvoyGan Cao
    • harmonizes all medicinals
    • relieves cough

Arrest Wheezing DecoctionPrescription Information

Name
Arrest Wheezing Decoction
Chinese Name

定喘汤

Classification

Qi-regulating formulas

Combination
Ginkgo Semen (Bai Guo remove shell; smash; dry-fry until yellow) 21 pieces (9g), Ephedrae Herba (Ma Huang) 3 qian (9g), Perillae Fructus (Zi Su Zi) 2 qian (6g), Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Gan Cao) 1 qian (3g), Farfarae Flos (Kuan Dong Hua) 3 qian (9g), Armeniacae Semen Amarum (Xing Ren) 1.5 qian (4.5g), Mori Cortex (Sang Bai Pi honey-fried) 3 qian (9g), Scutellariae Radix (Huang Qin slightly dry-fried) 1.5 qian (4.5g), Pinelliae Rhizoma Praeparatum (Ban Xia) 3 qian (9g)
Method
Prepare as a decoction.
Action
Diffuses the lung and directs qi downward, clears heat, and dissolves phlegm.
Indication
Ding Chuan Tang is indicated for wheezing and panting due to phlegm-heat accumulation in the lung. The symptoms are wheezing and panting, cough, phlegm with heavy breathing, thick yellow phlegm, and slight aversion to wind. The tongue coating is yellow and greasy, and the pulse is slippery and rapid.
Pathogenesis
This formula treats wheezing and panting due to constitutional phlegm-heat accumulation, frequent onset of wind-cold, and lung qi obstruction leading to poor dispersion. Therefore, the symptoms are wheezing and panting, cough, profuse yellow phlegm. The tongue coating is yellow and greasy, and the pulse is slippery and rapid. While the Ding Chuan Tang pattern covers both the exterior and interior, phlegm-heat accumulation and lung failing to diffuse and govern descent is the major pathogenesis. Therefore, both the method and formula focuses on diffusing the lung and directing qi downward, clearing heat, and dissolving phlegm in combination with diffusing and dissipating exterior pathogens.
Application
1. Essential pattern differentiation Ding Chuan Tang is a common formula used to treat cough and panting due to phlegm-heat accumulation. This clinical pattern is marked by cough and panting, thick yellow phlegm, greasy, yellow tongue coating, slippery, rapid pulse. 2. Modern applications This formula is commonly used in the following biomedically defined disorders when the patient shows signs of phlegm-heat accumulation in the lung: bronchial asthma, asthmatic bronchitis. 3. Cautions and contraindications It is not applicable for patients with chronic asthma due to lung-kidney yin deficiency.
Source
《Numerous Miraculous Prescriptions for Health Cultivation》She Sheng Zhong Miao Fang《攝生眾妙方》

Arrest Wheezing DecoctionFormulation composition herbal medicine

Cultivated Puple Perilla Fruit

Cultivated Puple Perilla Fruit

Perillae Fructus
Functions：Downbears qi, transforms phlegm, calms panting, moistens intestines. Apply to adverse rising of qi due to stagnation of phlegm, dyspnea and cough, constipation induced by dryness of the intestine. Resolves exterior, disperse cold, moves qi, harmonizes stomach, apply to common cold of wind-cold, dyspnea and cough, hyperemesis gravidarum, threatened miscarriage, over indulgence of fish and crab.
White Mulberry Root - bark

White Mulberry Root - bark

Mori Cortex
Functions：Drains lung, calms panting, promotes urination, eliminates swelling. Apply to cough due to lung heat, facial edema, difficulty in micturition.
Chinese Ephedrs Herb

Chinese Ephedrs Herb

Ephedrae Herba
Functions：Promotes sweating, disperses cold, diffuses the lung, calms panting, promotes urination, reduces swelling.
Ansu Apricot Seed

Ansu Apricot Seed

Armeniacae Semen Amarum
Functions：Downbears qi, stops cough, calms panting, moistens intestines, frees stools. Apply to coughing and dyspnea, excessive phlegm due to chest distention, hemopenia due to consumption of fluid, constipation induced by dryness of the intestine.
Common Coltsfoot Flower

Common Coltsfoot Flower

Farfarae Flos
Functions：Transforms phlegm, stops cough, downbears qi, moistens the lung, stops vomiting. Apply to cough, panting, tuberculosis, cough with bloody phlegm.
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.
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.
Ternate Pinellia

Ternate Pinellia

Pinelliae Rhizoma
Functions：Dries dampness, transforms phlegm, downbears counterflow, relieves vomiting, disperses focal distention, dissipates binds. Apply to damp-phlegm and cold-phlegm, cough with much phlegm, phlegm-fluid retention, palpitations, wind-phlegm and dizziness, phlegm syncope and headache, vomiting and stomach reflux, gastric stuffiness, plum-pit-qi; externally used for painful and swollen phlegm nodes.
Ginkgo Seed

Ginkgo Seed

Ginkgo Semen
Functions：Constrains the lung and stabilizes panting, checks vaginal discharge and reduces urination. Asthma, cough due to phlegm; whitish vaginal discharge; white and turbish urine; anischuria; urinary frequency; unknown swelling toxin; nasal boil.
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