Trichosanthes Decoction

Trichosanthes Decoction,For children with fever and thirst, or with deficiency-heat manifesting as vomiting or diarrhea.

Formulas Name : Trichosanthes Decoction

Chinese Name : 栝楼饮

Drug Formulation

3 fen of Trichosanthes root, 1 fen of Scutellaria baicalensis (with black core removed), half a liang of Anemarrhena asphodeloides (roasted), half a liang of wheat, and half a liang of millet.

Source

From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 168.

Processing

Except for the millet and wheat, grind the remaining ingredients into a coarse powder.

Benefits

For children with fever and thirst, or with deficiency-heat manifesting as vomiting or diarrhea.

Instructions for Use

Take 2 qian per dose; add 1 small cup of water and a pinch each of wheat and millet. Decoct until reduced to 6 fen, strain, and divide into 3 doses to be taken within one day.

Trichosanthes Decoction,From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 168.,For children with fever and thirst, or with deficiency-heat manifesting as vomiting or diarrhea.

More Herbs Formulas

Chen Gan Powder

Chen Gan Powder,From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.,Sudden vomiting of blood.

Ying Shi San

Ying Shi San,*Shengji Zonglu*, Vol. 11.,For corneal opacities that have persisted for a long time without healing.

Five-Ingredient Licorice Paste

Five-Ingredient Licorice Paste,From *Qianjin*, Volume 5.,Newborn infants have delicate skin and are prone to being affected by wind pathogens, resulting in high fever; or they may suffer from severe wind, causing convulsions in the hands and feet.

Divine Taiyi Ointment

Divine Taiyi Ointment,From *Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 4.,Effective for contusions, injuries, and pain throughout the body; all types of boils and abscesses; malignant sores, scabies, and ringworm; as well as pain in the tendons and bones.

Cough-Relieving Ointment

Cough-Relieving Ointment,From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 65.,For yin-deficient cough, fever caused by internal heat, hemoptysis, and hematemesis.

Gold and Silver Powder

Gold and Silver Powder,*Collected Proven Formulas of the Zhu Family*, Volume 3.,For chest and abdominal pain, distension, and a sensation of pressure rising upward, making it impossible to bend or stretch.

Light Bone Decoction

Light Bone Decoction,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 89.,For deficiency-related fatigue, aching in all joints, emaciation with fever, and mental confusion.

Gardenia and Coptis Four Substances Decoction

Gardenia and Coptis Four Substances Decoction,*Compendium of Medical Essentials*, Volume 8.,For cases where the menstrual cycle is obstructed due to concomitant summer-heat or heat, or where the menstrual cycle is disrupted by anger, resulting in blood deficiency and blurred vision; or where heat is contracted during menstruation; or where repressed anger causes qi to rise … Read more

Zhu Feng Powder

Zhu Feng Powder,*Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.,

Huanglian Qixin Decoction

Huanglian Qixin Decoction,*Records of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 5.,Guang Ge. Vomiting and inability to eat, accompanied by an inability to pass urine or stool.

Hibiscus Internal Support Powder

Hibiscus Internal Support Powder,From *The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 2.,For those with established anal abscesses and weakened vital energy.

Xiao Juhua Ointment

Xiao Juhua Ointment,*Discussions on the Care of Infants and Children*, Volume 20.,For pediatric eye conditions caused by accumulated toxins, characterized by redness, swelling, eye discharge, pain, and corneal opacities.

Liu Yi Pill

Liu Yi Pill,*Essentials of the Silver Sea*, Volume 2.,For hot tears.

Decoction for Removing Eye Opacities

Decoction for Removing Eye Opacities,*Collection of Surgical Treatises*, Volume 2.,For eye opacities caused by smallpox toxin, where a membrane-like opacity obscures the pupil.

Cangwu-Shenling Powder

Cangwu-Shenling Powder,*Records of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 2.,For qi deficiency with a slight invasion of cold-damp pathogens; when the pathogenic factors assault the pericardium, causing sudden, transient chest pain that comes and goes rapidly—occurring more than ten times a day—with no impairment of appetite but restlessness day and night.

Ginseng Yang-Tonifying Decoction

Ginseng Yang-Tonifying Decoction,From *Yuanji Qiwei*, Volume 2.,When residual pathogenic factors from a cold-induced fever fail to dissipate and ascend to the orifices, the symptoms include itching, dryness, redness, and distension; the formation of corneal opacities with photophobia; and headaches and bone pain.

Phellodendron and Bamboo Sap Paste

Phellodendron and Bamboo Sap Paste,Quoted from *Ren Cun Fang* in *The Great Compendium of the Yongle Era*, Volume 11413.,For long-standing corneal opacities.

Fragrant Bean Powder

Fragrant Bean Powder,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 78.,For diarrhea with body swelling.

Oak Bark Decoction

Oak Bark Decoction,From *General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 11).,For all types of red and white dysentery in children.

Decoction for Relieving Pain and Calming the Mind

Decoction for Relieving Pain and Calming the Mind,From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 2.,For extreme heart pain, such that the patient feels life is not worth living, cries out all night long, and weeps profusely.

Erhuai Dan

Erhuai Dan,Formula by Liu Tongchuan, cited in Volume 8 of *The Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*.,Rectal prolapse.

Soapberry Pills

Soapberry Pills,From *Ji Sheng*, Volume 8.,For scrofula nodules filling the neck that have not ruptured, as well as tuberculous swellings accompanied by pain.

Ziyun Ointment

Ziyun Ointment,From *Wentang Collection of Proven Formulas*, Volume 4.,For all types of swollen abscesses in their early stages—those that have not yet ruptured will dissipate immediately, and those that have already ruptured will heal promptly.

Three Shedding Powder

Three Shedding Powder,From *Secret Manual of Prenatal and Childbirth Care*, Middle Volume.,For transverse or difficult labor, with the fetus dead in the womb.

Kudzu Root, Ginger, and Fermented Soybean Decoction

Kudzu Root, Ginger, and Fermented Soybean Decoction,*Treatise on General Diseases of Cold Damage*, Volume 3.,Epidemic fever with fatigue and high fever, accompanied by lower back and back pain in the evening, and stiffness and heaviness in the head and neck.