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.Their effect is toemolliate the liver and relax urgency, calm the heart and quiet the spirit.Lily moistens the lungs and nourishesthe heart, Albizzia nourishes the heart and quiets the spirit, Caulis Polygoni nourishes the liver and calms thespirit, and Poria supplements the spleen and quiets the spirit.Therefore, each of these additional ingredientssupplements one of the viscera involved in this scenario.2 This version of this famous formula contains several additional ingredients that the standard formuladoes not.The standard ingredients are the first three listed above.If you like this book, buy it!Page 152Comments: This very simple medicine can either be used alone or combined with other Chinese ready-mademedicines.However, its simplicity should not deceive one.It is based on very sophisticated Chinese medicaltheory.In describing the disease mechanisms of visceral agitation, Profs.Song and Yu state:The cause of this disease is mainly heart constructive insufficiency and heart fire upward dazzling lungmetal.The heart rules joy and the lungs rule sorrow.The heart produces laughter and the lungs producecrying.Therefore, there is distress due to sorrow and deep grief, crying and laughing with no constancy.The kidneys rule yawning.If heart yin is already vacuous, heart fire is hyperactive above and is not ableto descend and join with the kidneys.Thus there is much yawning and stretching.3That being said, this formula does not use any bitter, cold medicinals to clear heart fire.Rather, it uses LiDong-yuans approach of treating yin fire with sweet, warm medicinals which fortify the spleen and upbear theclear.Once the clear is upborne, the turbid is downborne and the qi mechanism is disinhibited.Depression isresolved and the root of yin fire is cut.This is like taking the wood out from under a cauldron.This methodalso does not use a lot of slimy, enriching ingredients which might gum up the qi mechanism even more.Thisis why I say this seemingly simple medicine is quite sophisticated.An Shui Wan (Quiet Sleep Pills)Radix Polygalae Tenuifoliae (Yuan Zhi)Semen Biotae Orientalis (Bai Zi Ren)Radix Platycodi Grandiflori (Jie Geng)cooked Radix Rehmanniae (Shu Di)Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae (Chen Pi)Semen Zizyphi Spinosae (Suan Zao Ren)Radix Glycyrrhizae (Gan Cao)Radix Scrophulariae Ningpoensis (Xuan Shen)Sclerotium Poriae Cocos (Fu Ling)Radix Dioscoreae Oppositae (Shan Yao)Radix Codonopsitis Pilosulae (Dang Shen)Radix Angelicae Sinensis (Dang Gui)Tuber Ophiopogonis Japonici (Mai Dong)Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae (Bai Zhu)Rhizoma Acori Graminei (Shi Chang Pu)Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis (Wu Wei Zi)3 Song Guang-ji & Yu Xiao-zhen, A Handbook of Traditional Chinese Gynecology, trans.by ZhangTing-liang & Bob Flaws, Blue Poppy Press, Boulder, CO, 1995, p.227If you like this book, buy it!Page 153Herba Stephaniae Sinicae (Jin Bu Huan)Functions: Enriches yin and nourishes the blood, supplements the heart and quiets the spiritIndications: Yin debility and scanty blood.Heart disease, menopausal syndrome, chronic urticaria, apthousulcers, neurastheniaMain signs & symptoms: Vacuity vexation, scanty sleep, heart palpitations, lassitude of the spirit, profusedreams, impaired memory, dry, bound stools, sores arising in the mouth and on the tongue, a red tongue withscanty fur, and a fine, rapid pulseDosage: Two as needed4Formula explanation: This formula uses a heavy dose of cooked Rehmannia.One reason is to enrich kidneywater in order to supplement yin.Another reason is that it enters the blood division and nourishes the blood.Ifthe blood is not dry, then fluids are automatically moistened.It is the main or ruling medicinal in this formula.Scrophularia and Ophiopogon are sweet, cold, enriching, and moistening.They clear vacuity fire.Dang Guisupplements the blood.By nourishing the blood, it assists the above medicinals to enrich yin.The foregoingmedicinals as a group all supplement yin and blood.Codonopsis, Dioscorea, and Poria boost the qi and calmthe heart, while Zizyphus Seeds and Schisandra, both sour, restrain and constrain the heart qi.Thus, they alsoquiet the heart spirit.Semen Biotae and Polygala nourish the heart and quiet the spirit.Acorus opens theorifices, transforms phlegm, and quiets the spirit.These are the medicinals which as a group supplement theheart qi, calm the heart, and quiet the spirit.One group of medicinals supplements the root which is yin-bloodinsufficiency, while another group treats the branch of vacuity vexation and scanty sleep.Finally, Licoriceharmonizes all the other medicinals in this prescription.The one unusual ingredient in this formula which is otherwise a modification of Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan(Heavenly Emperor Supplement the Heart Elixir) is Stephania Sinica.This medicinal is bitter and cold.Whenused in decoction in doses from 6-15g, it clears heat and resolves toxins, fortifies the stomach and stops pain,scatters stasis and disperses swelling [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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