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AllFortune Windmillpalm PetioleTatarian Aster Root and RhizomeCultivated Puple Perilla FruitCultibated Purple Perilla LeafCutivated Purple Perilla StemFluoritePyriteRedroot GromwellAbnorma Chinese Honeylocust FruitCoral Ardisia RootCinnabarBamboo ShavingsAgaricGlabrous Scrcandra HerbCommon Gardenia FruitImmature Bitter OrangeSubmature Bitter OrangeCommon AnemarrhenaHematiteNacreChekiang Fritillary BulbOriental Waterplantain TuberHirsute Bugleweed HerbChinese Honeylocust SpineFragrant Solomonseal RhizomeBroadleaf Globethistle RootHeartleaf Houttuynia HerbDwarf Flowering Cherry SeedWenchow Turmeric Root TuberEmblic Leafflower FruitChinese Rose FlowerThinleaf Milkwort Willd.Lilac Daphe Flower BudSharpleaf Galangal FruitMa - yuen Jobstears SeedShort-horned Epimedium HerbGinkgo LeafOpium Poppy PeelCapillary Wormwood HerbLanceolate Dichotomous Starwort RootCommon Motherwort HerbWild Dendranthema FlowerYanhusuo TuberHindu Datura FlowerJava Brucea FruitDragon’s BloodAsper - like Teasel RootPaniculate Swallowwort Root or HerbFigwort RootWeathered Sodium SulfateJapanese Inula FlowerAmerican GinsengManchurian Wildginger HerbCommon St. Paulswort Herb|Glandulartalk St. Paulswort HerbRed OrpimentBiod Magnolia BudSaffon Crocus Style and StigmaLongstamen Onion BulbCommon Thistle|Field ThistleFennel FruitCommon Vurculigo RhizomeHairyvein Agrimonia HerbMedical Citron FruitCoralhead Plant SeedChinese Mosla HerbChinese Silkvine Root - barkNutgrass Galingale RhizomeCommon Selfheal SpikeMedicinal Evodia Immature FruitCombined Spicebush RootChinese Magnoliavine FruitBlack SoakeSmoked PlumSlenderstyleAcanthopanax Root - barkCentipedeChinese Nut-gallChinese Clematis Root and RhizomeChinese Cinquefoil HerbCowherb SeedArk ShellChinese Dodder SeedElecampane Inula RootGolden Larch Root - bark or BarkGlabrous Greenbrier RhizomeGround BeetlePaniculate Bolbostemma BulbRice Paper Plant PithPepperweed SeedTabasheerHenbane SeedSnow Lotus HerbReddish Jackinthepulpit TuberTall GastrodiaeMuskroot - like Semiaquilegia RootSnakegourd RootCochinchinese Asparagus Root TuberPeach SeedSandalwoodDifferent Leaves PseudostellariaSongaria Cynomorium HerbSappan WoodSpine Date SeedLoofah, Towel Gourd Vegetable SpongeLeechBuffalo HornPrince's Feather FruitBlessed Thistle FruitJapanese Felt FernRangooncreeper FruitSea-ear ShellNoble Dendrobium Stem HerbGypsumPersimmon Calyx and ReceptacleTatarinow Sweerflag RhizomeForest Musk|AbelmoskSnake SloughJapanese Clubmoss HerbSkunk Bugbane RhizomeFresh GingerBlackberrglily RhizomeCommon Cnidium FruitVillous Amomum FruitCommon Macrocarpium FruitHowthorn LeafChinese Hawthorn FruitWild Honeysuckle Flower BudCommon Yam RhizomeGalanga Resurrectionlily RhizomeHupeh Liriope Root TuberIndian Pokwees RoxbTonkin Sophora RootAppendiculate Cremastra PseudobulbSanchiCommon Burreed TuberMulberry TwigMulberry LeafMullberry FruitMantis Egg-caseChinese Taxillus HerbWhite Mulberry Root - barkFrankincenseCassia BarkNutmegDesertliving Cistanche HerbGinseng RootJapanese Honeysuckle StemFringed Pink HerbScorpionBistort RhizomeLong-nosed Pit ViperAsh BarkLargeleaf Gentian RootFeather Cockscomb SeedImmature Tangerine FruitBiotite SchistSweet Wormwood HerbWhite Canarytree FruitOvientvine StemNatural IndigoGordon Euryale SeedLobedleaf Pharbitis SeedObscuteed Homalomena RhizomeCaper Euphorbia SeedWhiteflower Hogfennel Root|Common Hogfennel RootIncised Notopterygium Rhizome and RootIndian Madder RootCattail PollenMongolian Dandelion HerbLoquat LeafUssuri Fritillary Vulb Fortune’s Eupatorium HerbBoat - fruited Sterculia SeedGlossy Privet FruitCommon AchyranthesBezoarGreat Burdock FruitChinese Azalea FlowerOrange Magnoliavine FruitFourleaf Ladybell RootWild Carrot FruitCommon Baphicacanthus Rhizome and RootCommon Scouring RushCostusrootAkabia StemCommon Oyster ShellHempleaf Negundo Chastetree LeafIndian Trunpetflower SeedCommon Floweringquine FruitTree Peony Root - barkCochinchina Momordica SeedMyrrhMedicinal ChangiumMale Fern RhizomeSpingy Yam RhizomeRoseNux VomicaSinplelaef Shrub Chastetree FruitMirabilite|Glauber’s SaltBarley SproutDwarf Lilyturf Root TuberChinese Ephedrs HerbSlender Dutchmanspipe FruitBBChinese Pyrola HerbHairy Antler Pilose AntlerChinese Starasmine StemLohanguo Siraitia FruitDogbane LeafBeautiful Sweetgum FruitAloesReed RhizomeSmithsonite|CalamineCommon Swisscentaury RootDried Longan PulpChinese Gentian Root|Rough Gentian RootLucid GanodermaAntelope HomChinese TrumpetcreeperLotus PlumuleLotus SeedWeeping Forsythia FruitShinyleaf Pricklyash RootCommon Heron’s Bill HerbFischer Euphorbia RootWinteersweet Flower BudGarden Radish SeedAnsu Apricot SeedLightyellow Sophra RootKelpChinaberry - Tree BarkCommon Coltsfoot FlowerFlorists DendranthemaSickle Senna SeedTamarisklike Spikemoss HerbSuberect Spatholobus StemCommon Jasminorange Twig and Leaf|PaniculateJasminorangeTwig and LeafTuber Onion SeedChinese Fevervine Herb and RootJapanese Honysuckle Flower BudCherokee Rose FruitWild Buckwheat RhizomeChristina Loosestrife HerbLittle Multibanded KraitMica SchistFineleaf Schizonepeta HerbPeking Euphorbia RootChicken's Gizzard-membranePuncturevine Caltrap FruitCanton Abrus HerbCockscomb FlowerIndian Mustard SeedBalloonflower RootMexican Frangipani FlowerFiveleaf Gynostemma Herb or RootRosewood Heart WoodCommon Turmeric RhizomeStiff SilkwormGiant Knotweed RootHemp FruitCommon Fenugreek SeedColored Mistletoe HerbBlack Pepper FruitFigwortflower Picrorhiza RhizomeTalcBaikal Skullcap RootMongolian Milkvetch Root|Membranous Milkvetch RootChinese Goldthread RhizomeSiberian Solomonseal RhizomeAmur Corktree BarkTomentose Pummelo PeelBunge Pricklyath PericarpJapanese Pagodatree FruitBlack Locust FlowerOfficinal Magnolia BarkRed GinsengManyinflorecenced SweetvetchKirilow Rhodiola Root and RhizomeSafflowerGalanga Galangal FruitKonxia RootMedicine TerminaliaHindu Lotus LeafWalnut MeatTuber Fleeceflower RootCommon Carpesium FruitSilktree Albizia FlowerSeaweedCuttlebone|SepiumKellogg’s SeahorseJapanese Climbing Fern SporeFoxtail Millet SproutFortune's Drynaria RhizomeBuerger Pipewort HeadCassiabarktree TwigTortose's Carapae and PlastronChinese Corktree BarkSnowbellleaf Tickclover HerbCablin Potchouli HerbMongolian Snakegourd FruitSharpleaf Uncaria Stem with HoolsBabury Wolfberry FruitEast Asian Tree Fern Chinese Holly LeafClam ShellGiant GeckoLobed Kudzuvine RootLesser Galangal RhizomeChinese Ligusticum RhizomeGansui Root|Kansui RootChinese Nardostachys Root and RhizomeDried GingerLiquorice RootPrepared Common Monkshood Daughter RootPalmleaf Raspberry FruitIndian Buead|TuckahoeFinger Citron FruitHypoglaucous Yam RhizomeBeautiful Steetgum ResinEdible Kudzuvine RootGrand TorreyaSanna LeafFourstamen Stephania RootDivaricate SaposhnikoviaBlue Turmeric RhizomeCutch|Khair|Black CatechuAss-hide GelatinEucommia ulmoides OlivEucommia BarkDoubleteeth Angelicae RootWhitefruit Amomim FruitCluster Mallow Fruit Chinese Caterpillar FungusLongleaf Garden Burnet RootCloveEarthwormAdhesive Rehmannia Root TuberChinese Wolfberry Root - barkBelvedere FruitCommon Rush Pith or HerbaCommon JujubeSargenrgloryvineIndigowoad LeafRice - grain SproutSword Jackbean SeedCommon Lophatherum HerbDan - shen RootPilose Asiabell RootChinese AngelicaFermented SoybeanJapanese ThistleRhubarb|Tangute RhubarbAreca PeelManyprinckle AcanthopanaxMagnetitePapermulberry FruitHeaven Ailanthus Root - bark or BarkStringy Stonecrop HerbSzechwan Lovage RhizomeCommon Andrographis HerbCommon Monkshood Mother RootMedicinal Cyathula officinalis RootCommon Vladimiria RootArmand Clematis StemSzechwan Chinaberry FruitTendrilleaf Fritillary BulbCommon Motherwort FruitChinese Manyleaf Paris RhizomeChinese CeraRice BeanRed Paeoniae TrichocarpaeAsiatic Plantain SeedAsiatic Plantain HerbTambacTangerine PeelCicada SloughDried Toads VenomAntifebrile Dichroa RootChinese Thorawax RootChinese Arborviae Twig and LeafKusnezoff Monkshood Mother RootTsaoko Amomum FruitKatsumada Galangal SeedSwordlike Atracylodes RhizomeSiberian Cocklebur FruitMalaytea Scurfpea FruitWild Mint HerbSynthetic BorneolBetelnutpalm SeedCastorbean Turtle CarapaceLong Pepper FruitCoastal Glehnia RootAsiatic Moonseed RhizomeChinaroot Greenbrier RhizomeTernate PinelliaChinese Blistering BeetleIndigowoad RootChinese Lobelia HerbMedicinal Morinda RootTruestar AniseChinese Arborvilae SeedLargehead Atractylodes RhizomeTaiwan Angelica RootDenesefruit Pittany Root - barkBlackend Swallowwort Root and RhizomeChinese Pulsatilla RootWhite Peony RootWillowleaf Swallowwort Rhizome and RootLalang Grass RhizomeJapanese Ampelopsis Root TuberCommon Bletilla TuberSpreading Hedyotis HerbGreenish lily Bulb|Liy BulbGinkgo SeedGiant Typhonium TuberAlumJapanese Stemona RootWhite Hyacinth BeanPurging Croton SeedChinese Asafoe tida|Sinkiang Ferula
Immature Bitter Orange Stagnation-Moving Pill

Immature Bitter Orange Stagnation-Moving Pill

Action:Promotes digestion, removes stagnation, clears heat, and removes dampness.
Indication:Food accumulation with damp-heat, marked by distending pain of the abdomen and stomach cavity, diarrhea, constipation, dark, scanty urine, a greasy yellow tongue coating, and a deep, forceful pulse.
Turtle Shell Decocted Pill

Turtle Shell Decocted Pill

Action:Moves qi, invigorates blood, dispels dampness, dissolves phlegm, softens hardness, and disperses concretions.
Indication:Bie Jia Jian Wan is indicated for chronic malaria with masses below the costal region and abdominal masses. Long-lasting malaria causes masses to gather underneath the costal region. It is called chronic malaria with masses. Symptoms include: Masses underneath the costal region that stay firm when pushed, abdominal pain, weak muscles, decreased appetite, occasional cold or fever, and inhibited menses.
Phlegm-Removing Pill

Phlegm-Removing Pill

Action:Drains heat and expels phlegm.
Indication:Gun Tan Wan is used to treat patterns of excess heat and obstinate phlegm. Such patterns manifest many symptoms including mania and palpitations due to fright, severe palpitations and fainting, coughing and panting while expectorating thick phlegm, vertigo and tinnitus, nodules around the neck, wriggling of the mouth and eyes, insomnia or strange dreams, sudden pain of the joints, vexation and stuffiness due to sighing and choking, and constipation. The tongue coating is yellow and thick and the pulse is slippery, rapid and powerful.
Spleen-Warming Decoction

Spleen-Warming Decoction

Action:Expels cold accumulation through purgation, warms and supplements spleen yang.
Indication:Wen Pi Tang is indicated for cold accumulation due to yang deficiency. Symptoms are abdominal pain and constipation, unstoppable colic around umbilicus, cold hands and feet, a white tongue coating with no thirst, and a deep wiry, slow pulse.
Yellow Dragon Decoction

Yellow Dragon Decoction

Action:Purges by promoting defecation, supplements qi and nourishes the blood.
Indication:This formula may be prescribed for yangming bowel excess with deficiency of qi and blood. This pattern is characterized by either the discharge of clear, watery stool that is pure green or constipation. There is stomach cavity and abdominal distention and pain which refuses pressure, fever, thirst, mental fatigue, shortness of breath, delirious speech, picking at their pajamas, teasing air as if arranging thread, unconsciousness, reversal counterflow cold of the four limbs, a dry yellow or dry black tongue coating, and a weak pulse.
Original Qi-Restoring and Blood-Moving Decoction

Original Qi-Restoring and Blood-Moving Decoction

Action:Invigorates blood and dispels stasis, soothes liver and unblocks the collaterals.
Indication:Fu Yuan Huo Xue Tang is indicated for injuries from falls, fractures, contusions, and strains, as well as, patterns of blood stasis marked by unbearable hypochondriac pain due to obstructive stasis.
Cannabis Fruit Pill (Spleen Confinement Pill)

Cannabis Fruit Pill (Spleen Confinement Pill)

Action:Moistens the intestines, drains heat, and moves qi to promote defecation.
Indication:Ma Zi Ren Wan is indicated for spleen confinement constipation due to dryness-heat in the stomach and intestines. The symptoms are dry stool, frequent urination, a red tongue body, a dry slightly yellow tongue coating, and a rapid pulse.
Diaphragm-Cooling Powder

Diaphragm-Cooling Powder

Action:Drains fire, promotes defecation, clears heat from the upper, and discharges heat through the purgative method.
Indication:This formula is indicated for the heat that has been generated from the constraint of pathogens in the upper jiao and middle jiao. The symptoms are vexing heat in the chest and diaphragm, red complexion, parched lips, vexation and agitation, thirst, mouth and tongue sores, restless sleep, delirium, pharyngeal pain, spitting of blood, nosebleed, constipation, dark urine, and incomplete defecation. The tongue is red with a yellow coating, and the pulse is slippery and rapid.
Virgate Wormwood Decoction

Virgate Wormwood Decoction

Action:Clears heat, drains dampness, and relieves jaundice.
Indication:Yin Chen Hao Tang is indicated for damp-heat jaundice. The symptoms are bright yellow discoloration of the skin, fever, absence of sweating or only sweating on the head, thirst with a desire to drink, nausea, vomiting, slight abdominal distension, scanty and dark urine, diarrhea, or constipation. The tongue is red with a greasy and yellow coating. The pulse is either deep, rapid or slippery, rapid and powerful.
Peach Kernel Qi-Guiding Decoction

Peach Kernel Qi-Guiding Decoction

Action:Breaks up blood and expels stasis through purgation.
Indication:Tao He Cheng Qi Tang is indicated for patterns of blood amassment in the lower jiao. The symptoms are distension and spasmodic pain in the lower abdomen, normal urination, fever at night, menstrual block due to blood stasis, and painful menstruation; there may even be delirium, dysphoria, and mania. The pulse will be deep and excessive or choppy.
Peony Decoction

Peony Decoction

Action:Clears heat in the large intestine, dries dampness, invigorates the blood, and moves qi.
Indication:This formula is indicated for damp-heat dysentery. The symptoms are dysentery with stool containing pus and blood, abdominal pain, abdominal urgency with rectal heaviness, burning sensation in the anus, scant dark urine, a greasy yellow tongue coating, and a wiry rapid pulse.
Rhubarb and Aconite Decoction

Rhubarb and Aconite Decoction

Action:Warms the interior, dissipates cold, promotes defecation, and relieves pain.
Indication:This formula is designed for an excess pattern of cold stagnation in the interior. The symptoms are abdominal pain, constipation, rib-side pain, fever, reversal cold of the hands and feet, a white and greasy tongue coating, and a wiry, tight pulse.
Rhubarb and Cortex Moutan Decoction

Rhubarb and Cortex Moutan Decoction

Action:Drains heat, breaks up stasis, dissipates masses, and relieves swollen sores.
Indication:Da Huang Mu Dan Tang is indicated for the initial stage of intestinal abscess caused by the stagnation of dampness, heat, and blood stasis. The symptoms are pain which refuses pressure in the right lesser abdomen (lateral aspects of the lower abdomen), pain that can be as severe as strangury or even accompanied with swollen mass in the right lesser abdomen, bent right foot which cannot stretch otherwise the pain being worsened, normal urination, frequent fever, spontaneous sweating, and aversion to cold. The tongue coating is thin, greasy, and yellow. The pulse is slippery and rapid.
Major Chest Draining Decoction

Major Chest Draining Decoction

Action:Drains heat and expels water through purgation.
Indication:Da Xian Xiong Tang is indicated for thoracic accumulation caused by the binding of water and heat. The symptoms are pain that refuses pressure below heart, hardness in the diseased location, or there is a full, hard, and painful region below the heart and above the lesser abdomen and touching is not tolerated. Other accompanying symptoms are shortness of breath, vexation, constipation, and mild tidal fever in the afternoon. The tongue is red with a yellow greasy or watery coating, and the pulse is deep and tight or deep, slow, and powerful.
Major Bupleurum Decoction

Major Bupleurum Decoction

Action:Harmonizes shaoyang and drains interior heat bind.
Indication:This formula treats a combined shaoyang-yangming pattern characterized by alternating chills and fever, fullness and discomfort in the chest and rib-side, frequent vomiting, constant vexation, epigastric pi and hardness or epigastric fullness and pain, constipation or diarrhea with fever, a yellow tongue coating, and a powerful wiry, rapid pulse.
Major Purgative Decoction

Major Purgative Decoction

Action:Drastically purges heat accumulation.
Indication:1. Excess heat in the yangming fu-organs. The symptoms are constipation with frequent flatulence, gastric stuffiness and abdominal fullness, abdominal pain that feels worse with pressure, and the abdomen is tense and firm when pressed. In severe cases, there may be tidal fever, delirious speech, and profuse sweating from the palms and soles. The tongue coating is dry and yellow with prickles, or dry and parched black with cracks. The pulse is deep and excessive.
Ten Charred Substances Powder

Ten Charred Substances Powder

Action:Cools blood and stanches bleeding.
Indication:Shi Hui San is indicated for hemorrhages due to blood heat. Examples include vomiting of blood, spitting of blood, expectoration of blood, coughing of blood, nosebleed. If the color of the blood is bright red, the situation is acute and severe. The tongue body is red and the pulse is rapid.
Eight Corrections Powder

Eight Corrections Powder

Action:Clears heat and subdues fire, promotes urination, and relieves strangury.
Indication:Ba Zheng San is indicated for damp-heat strangury. The symptoms are frequent urgent urination, odynuria, dribbling urination, dark yellow urine, retention of urine in severe cases, cramps and fullness of abdomen, and a dry mouth and throat. The coating is yellow and greasy and the pulse is slippery and rapid.
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