Atractylodes and Gypsum Decoction

Atractylodes and Gypsum Decoction,For damp-heat syndrome, characterized by a slightly chilly sensation throughout the body, slight spontaneous sweating, and heaviness in the limbs.

Formulas Name : Atractylodes and Gypsum Decoction

Chinese Name : 苍术石膏汤

Drug Formulation

Half a liang of Atractylodes, 5 qian of Gypsum, 1.5 qian of Anemarrhena (chopped), and 1 qian of Licorice.

Source

*Collection for Preserving Life*, Middle Volume.

Benefits

For damp-heat syndrome, characterized by a slightly chilly sensation throughout the body, slight spontaneous sweating, and heaviness in the limbs.

Instructions for Use

Mix the above herbs evenly; combine them into a single dose. Decoct with 2 zhan of water until reduced to 1 zhan, then take while warm.

Atractylodes and Gypsum Decoction,*Collection for Preserving Life*, Middle Volume.,For damp-heat syndrome, characterized by a slightly chilly sensation throughout the body, slight spontaneous sweating, and heaviness in the limbs.

More Herbs Formulas

Cangfu Decoction

Cangfu Decoction,From *Concise Medical Compendium*, Volume 3.,For various types of hernia pain.

Si Miao Powder

Si Miao Powder,*Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 4.,For syphilitic nodules, regardless of how long they have existed, whether they have already ruptured or not.

Decoction for Nourishing the Ren and Du Vessels

Decoction for Nourishing the Ren and Du Vessels,From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 11.,For women who are childless.

Pihui Powder

Pihui Powder,From *Treatise on Epidemic Diseases*, Volume 2.,

Wax-Resin Ointment

Wax-Resin Ointment,*Treasury of Eastern Medicine: Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 8.,For frostbite sores.

White Lead Ointment.

White Lead Ointment.,From *General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 18).,For chronic scalp sores in children that have persisted for years.

Child-Rearing Pill

Child-Rearing Pill,*National Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas* (Yuxian Formula).,For food stagnation and parasitic infestations, jaundice with emaciation, abdominal distension and pain, and all types of mass accumulation.

Bone-Penetrating Decoction

Bone-Penetrating Decoction,From *He’s Treatise on Saving Lives*, Volume 3.,Headache.

Infant-Protecting Hundred-in-One Ointment

Infant-Protecting Hundred-in-One Ointment,*Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*.,For children suffering from malnutrition, chronic diarrhea, dysentery, or coughs who refuse to take medicine; as well as for treating injuries from falls or blows to the hands, feet, shoulders, and back, and for cold-damp beriberi causing unbearable pain.

Cooling Calming Pills

Cooling Calming Pills,From *Elucidations on Pediatrics*, Volume 2.,For various types of fever and convulsions in children.

Zhuangzhen Wuhe Pills

Zhuangzhen Wuhe Pills,From *Medical Case Records of the Yi Family*.,Menstrual disorders due to qi stagnation.

Intestinal-Relaxing Decoction

Intestinal-Relaxing Decoction,From *General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 11).,Diarrhea with blood. Blood discharge resembling red water or soybean juice, accompanied by abdominal pain.

Fangui Shu Ling Powder

Fangui Shu Ling Powder,*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 2.,Pathogenic factors of wind, cold, and dampness invade the Sanjiao, leading to bi syndrome, with pain throughout the entire body that comes and goes intermittently; phlegm and qi are not cleared, resulting in a desire to cough but an inability to do so; a sensation of … Read more

Purple Jade Hairpin Ointment

Purple Jade Hairpin Ointment,*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 27.,Corn.

Falcon’s Beak Soup

Falcon’s Beak Soup,From *The Compendium of Medical Syndromes* (Vol. 14), citing *The Heart Mirror of Dietary Medicine*.,Cold Qi in the spleen and stomach, resulting in inability to digest food, weakness, and fatigue.

Bugu Dan

Bugu Dan,From *The Treasure of Family Health*, cited in *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 310.,For contusions and injuries; lower back pain.

Spleen-Tonifying and Qi-Nourishing Decoction

Spleen-Tonifying and Qi-Nourishing Decoction,*Dian Dian Jing*, Volume 1.,Hematemesis due to alcohol intoxication, dizziness, sallow and puffy complexion, and reduced appetite.

Green Olive Cough-Relieving Pills

Green Olive Cough-Relieving Pills,*National Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas* (Yuxian Formula).,For wind-cold coughs with excessive phlegm and dry heat in the Lung Meridian.

Decoction for Supporting the Intestines and Eliminating Toxins

Decoction for Supporting the Intestines and Eliminating Toxins,From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 15.,For smallpox lesions on the 11th–12th day, when the lesions are halfway healed and subsiding.

Clear Wind, Eliminate Fire, and Transform Toxin Decoction

Clear Wind, Eliminate Fire, and Transform Toxin Decoction,*Collected Works on Pediatric Medicine*, Volume 2.,In children, when smallpox first appears and the exterior syndrome has not yet resolved, wind-heat causes itching.

Rhubarb Ointment Formula

Rhubarb Ointment Formula,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 118.,Tight lips.

Wei Meridian Pill

Wei Meridian Pill,From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.,For a weak spleen and stomach that have long been afflicted by deficiency-cold, manifesting as pain in the lower back and abdomen, frequent and uncontrolled diarrhea, a sallow complexion, listlessness, soreness and heaviness in the lower back and knees, fullness and distension in the chest and diaphragm, vomiting … Read more

Eucommia and Four-Reversal Decoction

Eucommia and Four-Reversal Decoction,*Complete Collection on Survival from Cold Damage*, Volume 2.,For Jueyin-type cold damage characterized by vomiting of saliva and froth, vomiting and diarrhea, cold extremities, restlessness, and a deep pulse. For Jueyin cold invasion causing severe lower abdominal pain.

Blood-Cooling and Stagnation-Resolving Powder

Blood-Cooling and Stagnation-Resolving Powder,*Yuanhe Jiyong Jing*.,

Heavenly Life Moisture-Generating Decoction

Heavenly Life Moisture-Generating Decoction,*Treasury of Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 4.,For diabetes.