The clinical application of Qianzheng San is mainly for sudden deviation of the mouth and eyes and a pale tongue with a white coating. Do you know the herbal ingredients of Qianzheng San? Let me take you through a comprehensive understanding of Qianzheng San!
【Herbal Ingredients of Qianzheng San】
Bai Fu Zi (Typhonium Rhizome), Bai Jiang Can (Silkworm), and Quan Xie (Scorpion) are each used in equal amounts and processed.
Bai Fu Zi: It has the effects of dispelling wind and phlegm, calming spasms, detoxifying, dispersing nodules, and relieving pain. It is used for wind-phlegm obstruction, deviation of the mouth and eyes, difficulty in speech, epilepsy, tetanus, phlegm-induced headache, unilateral headache, scrofula, phlegm nodules, and snakebite.
Bai Jiang Can: It dispels wind, relieves spasms, transforms phlegm, and disperses nodules. It is used for wind stroke with loss of voice, epilepsy, headache, throat wind, throat obstruction, scrofula, wind-induced eczema, erysipelas, and mastitis.
Quan Xie: It calms wind, stops spasms, invigorates channels, relieves pain, and disperses nodules. It is used for liver wind internal stirring, spasm and convulsions, infantile convulsions, wind stroke with deviation of the mouth and eyes, hemiplegia, tetanus, rheumatic stubborn paralysis, unilateral headache, sores, and scrofula.
【Precautions】
Bai Fu Zi in the Qianzheng San formula has a warm and dry nature, suitable for those with wind-phlegm obstruction in the channels and a tendency toward cold. Sudden deviation of the mouth and eyes and a pale tongue with a white coating are the key indications for treatment.
If the symptoms are caused by qi deficiency and blood stasis or liver wind internal stirring, with corner of the mouth drooping or hemiplegia, this formula should not be used. Both Bai Fu Zi and Quan Xie in the formula are toxic substances, so caution should be exercised in their dosage.
Qianzheng San is a commonly used prescription for treating wind obstruction in the channels and sudden deviation of the mouth and eyes. If Wugong, Tian Ma, Di Long, and other herbs that dispel wind, relieve spasms, and invigorate channels are added, the therapeutic effect can be enhanced.
