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Cinnamon and Poria Sweet Dew Beverage

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Cinnamon and Poria Sweet Dew Beverage
ChiefHua Shi
    • clears summerheat-heat
    • promotes urination and percolates dampness
DeputyShi Gao
    • clear summerheat-heat
DeputyHan Shui Shi
    • clear summerheat-heat
AssistantZhu Ling
    • promote urination and percolate dampness
AssistantFu Ling
    • promote urination and percolate dampness
AssistantZe Xie
    • promote urination and percolate dampness
AssistantBai Zhu
    • fortifies the spleen and removes dampness
AssistantGuan Gui
    • reinforces qi transformation in the lower jiao
    • expels dampness through urination
    • prevents cool medicinals from retaining pathogens
EnvoyGan Cao
    • boosts qi
    • harmonizes all medicinals in the formula
    • helps fu ling and gui zhi fortify the spleen
    • restrains the heavy, bearing down property of hua shi, shi gao, and han shui shi

Cinnamon and Poria Sweet Dew BeveragePrescription Information

Name
Cinnamon and Poria Sweet Dew Beverage
Chinese Name

桂苓甘露饮

Classification

Summer-heat clearing formulas

Combination
Poria (Fu Ling) 1 liang (30g), Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma Praeparata cum Melle (Zhi Gan Cao) 2 liang (60g), Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma (Bai Zhu) 0.5 liang (15g), Alismatis Rhizoma (Ze Xie) 1 liang (30g), Cinnamomi Cortex (Rou Gui) 2 liang (15g), Gypsum Fibrosum (Shi Gao) 2 liang (60g), Glauberitum (Han Shui Shi) 2 liang (60g), Talcum (Hua Shi) 4 liang (120g), Polyporus (Zhu Ling) 0.5 liang (15g)
Method
Grind the medicinals into a crude powder. Mix one dose of the formula (3 qian/9g) with warm water, fresh well water, and ginger soup (this is the best). For children, one dose of a formula is 1 qian (3g). (Modern use: use water to decoct the medicinals. The dose of the formula can be reduced in a proportional ratio to the original doses.)
Action
Clears summerheat, resolves heat, transforms qi, and drains dampness.
Indication
This formula is indicated for summerheat-dampness. The symptoms are fever with headache, vexation and thirst, inhibited urination, cholera, vomiting, and diarrhea.
Pathogenesis
This is a commonly used formula for severe cases of summerheat-dampness. Exterior summerheat causes a fever with headache. Intense heat damages the fluids, causing vexation and thirst. Intense dampness disturbs the qi transformation of the bladder, which leads to inhibited urination. Intense summerheat and intense dampness damage the spleen and stomach and results in irregular ascending and descending and failure of the clear and turbid to separate, which manifests as cholera, vomiting, and diarrhea. The therapeutic method is to clear summerheat and transform qi to promote urination.
Application
1. Essential pattern differentiation Gui Ling Gan Lu Yin is a commonly used formula for clearing summerheat and draining dampness. This clinical pattern is marked by fever with headache, vexation and thirst, inhibited urination. 2. Modern applications This formula may be used in the following biomedically defined disorders when the patient shows signs of summerheat-dampness: summerheat-strike and urinary tract infection. 3. Cautions and contraindications Gui Ling Gan Lu Yin is a heavy formula for clearing summerheat and draining dampness, and is used mainly in severe cases of summerheat-dampness. Do not use the formula in mild cases of summerheat damage, or patients with severe damage of qi and fluids after too much sweating and diarrhea.
Source
《Formulas from the Discussion Illuminating the Yellow Emperor's Basic Questions》Huang Di Su Wen Xuan Ming Lun Fang《黃帝素問宣明論方》

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