【Prescription Name】
Qiang Wu Tang
【Composition】
2 qian of Huang Qin, 2 qian of Huang Bai, 1 qian of Cang Zhu, 4 fen of Qiang Huo, 4 fen of Ma Huang, 4 fen of Wu Yu, 2 fen of Gao Ben, 2 fen of Sheng Ma, 2 fen of Huang Qi, 1 fen of Dang Gui, 1 fen of Chuan Xiong, 1 fen of Man Jing Zi, 1 fen of Xi Xin, 1 fen of Huang Lian, 1 fen of Ban Xia, 1 fen of Hong Hua.
【Indications】
Jue Yin headache at the top of the head and neck, or phlegm and saliva with cold extremities, with a floating and slow pulse.
【Usage】
Decoction, warm administration.
【Introduction to Medicinal Materials】
Dang Gui: Used to tonify blood, regulate menstruation, relieve pain, and moisten dryness and lubricate the intestines. It is used to treat irregular menstruation, abdominal pain due to menstrual blockage, accumulation of masses, excessive uterine bleeding; headache due to blood deficiency, dizziness, and paralysis; dry intestines and difficult bowel movements, recurrent dysentery; boils, abscesses, falls and injuries.
Ma Huang: Promotes sweating to dispel cold, promotes lung function and relieves asthma, promotes diuresis and reduces swelling. Used for wind-cold common cold, chest tightness, wheezing, wind-water swelling; bronchial asthma. Honey-processed Ma Huang moistens the lungs and stops coughing. It is often used for external symptoms that have been resolved, wheezing and coughing.
Chuan Xiong: Promotes blood circulation, relieves qi stagnation, dispels wind, and relieves pain. Used for chest pain, chest and rib pain, falls and injuries with swelling and pain, irregular menstruation, menstrual blockage and painful menstruation, abdominal pain due to masses, headaches, rheumatic pain.
Huang Qi: Huang Qi tonifies the spleen and stomach weakness, poor appetite, qi deficiency and blood loss, excessive uterine bleeding, excessive vaginal discharge, chronic diarrhea, prolapse of the rectum, prolapse of the uterus, gastric prolapse, kidney prolapse.
Ban Xia: Dries dampness, transforms phlegm, relieves nausea, and disperses nodules.
Huang Qin: Has the effects of clearing heat and dampness, purging fire and toxins, stopping bleeding, and stabilizing the fetus. Used for damp-heat, summer-heat chest tightness, nausea and vomiting, damp-heat obstruction, dysentery, jaundice, lung heat cough, high fever and irritability, blood heat vomiting nosebleeds, abscesses, boils, fetal movement uneasiness.
Huang Bai: Has the effects of clearing heat and dampness, purging fire and eliminating dampness, and detoxifying and treating sores. Used for damp-heat dysentery, jaundice, excessive vaginal discharge, hot urinary dysfunction, foot odor, bone steaming, excessive sweating, nocturnal emission, abscesses and sores.
Cang Zhu: Has the functions of drying dampness, strengthening the spleen, dispelling wind, dispelling cold, and improving vision. Used for damp obstruction in the middle burner, distension and fullness in the epigastric region, diarrhea, edema, foot qi, flaccidity and contraction, rheumatic pain, wind-cold common cold, night blindness, blurred vision.
