Er Dong Tang, a traditional Chinese medicine formula, is mentioned in the book "Medical Insights". Er Dong Tang has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, generating body fluids and relieving thirst. It is mainly used for excessive consumption and excessive thirst.
【Formula Name】
Er Dong Tang
【Composition】
Tian Dong (decored) 6g, Mai Dong (decored) 9g, Pollen 3g, Scutellaria 3g, Anemarrhena 3g, Licorice 1.5g, Ginseng 1.5g
【Functions and Indications】
Nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, generating body fluids and relieving thirst. It is used for excessive consumption and excessive thirst.
【Usage and Dosage】
Add 3g of Lotus leaf, decoct in water and take orally.
【Introduction to Medicinal Materials】
Licorice: It has a sweet taste and a neutral nature, and belongs to the heart, lung, spleen, and stomach meridians. It has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, invigorating the spleen and stomach, and harmonizing various medicines.
Pollen: Clear heat and generate body fluids; moisten the lungs and transform phlegm; eliminate swelling and discharge pus. It is used for fever with excessive thirst; excessive thirst and polydipsia; lung heat dry cough; ulcer and abscess swelling and toxicity.
Scutellaria: It has the effects of clearing heat and drying dampness, purging fire and detoxification, stopping bleeding, and calming the fetus. It is used for damp heat, summer heat chest tightness, nausea, dampness and heat stagnation, diarrhea, jaundice, lung heat cough, high fever and excessive thirst, blood heat vomiting and nosebleed, abscess and swelling toxicity, restless fetus.
Mai Dong: Nourish yin and generate body fluids, moisten the lungs and clear the heart. It is used for lung dry cough, yin deficiency cough, throat obstruction and sore throat, body fluid injury and thirst, internal heat and excessive thirst, restlessness and insomnia, dry intestines and constipation.
Ginseng: Tonify qi and fix collapse, tonify lung and invigorate spleen, generate body fluids, calm the mind, and enhance intelligence. It has the functions of tonifying qi and saving collapse, nourishing the heart and restoring pulse, calming the mind, generating body fluids, tonifying the lungs, and invigorating the spleen.
【Explanations from Different Schools】
Yin deficiency and lung dryness, dry cough without phlegm, this water does not match fire, and gold water cannot generate each other. Therefore, the mouth is dry and the heart is restless.
Ginseng nourishes yin to strengthen the water of the nine heavens, and the heart fire descends. Licorice nourishes the kidney to nourish the yin of the nine earths, and the kidney water rises. Tian Dong clears the heart and nourishes water, and Mai Dong moistens the lungs and generates body fluids. It is necessary to make the water rise and the fire descend, so that the dryness is moistened, the cough is relieved, and the heart is restless and the mouth is dry, all can be resolved naturally.
