Danggui Sini Tang is an ancient prescription for treating cold hands and feet. It is mainly composed of seven Chinese medicinal materials such as Angelica sinensis, Cinnamomum cassia, and Glycyrrhiza uralensis. It has the effect of warming the meridians and relieving pain, and is suitable for diseases characterized by abdominal pain, headache, joint pain, and cold hands and feet with thin pulse.
[Composition]
12g Angelica sinensis, 9g Cinnamomum cassia, 9g Paeonia lactiflora, 3g Asarum sieboldii, 6g Commelina communis, 8 jujubes, 6g processed Glycyrrhiza uralensis.
[Usage and Dosage]
Take the above seven ingredients, add 8 liters of water, boil and reduce to 3 liters, remove impurities. Take 1 liter warm decoction, 3 times a day. Modern usage: decoct with water and take orally.
[Functions and Indications]
Danggui Sini Tang has the effects of warming the meridians, dispersing cold, nourishing the blood, and promoting blood circulation. It is mainly used to treat blood deficiency and cold collapse syndrome, with symptoms such as cold hands and feet, or pain in the waist, thighs, legs, feet, shoulders, and arms, no thirst, pale tongue coating, and deep, thin or weak pulse.
[Constitutional Requirements]
Lethargic, reluctant to speak, cold hands and feet, especially fingertips, often accompanied by numbness, cold pain, and even cyanosis, it is not easy to warm up when covered with heated objects, and it is unusually cold in summer. Pale nails, lips, and face. Often accompanied by headache, abdominal pain, etc., women often have dysmenorrhea.
[Applicable Diseases]
Raynaud's disease, vascular neurogenic headache, thromboangiitis obliterans, chilblains, erythromelalgia, scleroderma, cracking of hands and feet, varicocele, vertebral-basilar artery insufficiency, coronary heart disease, aortitis, hypertension headache, head trauma headache, trigeminal neuralgia, peptic ulcer, intestinal spasm, ureteral calculi, adhesive capsulitis, chronic peritonitis, lumbar muscle strain, pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, cholecystitis, biliary ascariasis, sciatica, Meniere's syndrome, allergic purpura, chronic urticaria, acute and chronic prostatitis, epididymitis, vaginal contraction, impotence, tenosynovitis.
[Additions and Subtractions]
For nausea, vomiting, and headache, add Evodia rutaecarpa and fresh ginger, called Danggui Sini Tang with Evodia rutaecarpa and fresh ginger. For irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, infertility, as well as women with dry and yellowish skin, dry lips, hair loss, anemia, and decreased sexual desire, combine with Wenjing Tang.
[Pharmacological Research]
Sedative, analgesic, blood nourishing, and strengthening.
[Precautions]
This prescription contains Asarum sieboldii, so it is not necessary to use it in powder form; Commelina communis is generally not used, and it does not affect the overall effect of the prescription.
