Search for Herbal Teas Recipes by Symptom:

Changchun Dan

Disclaimer: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. All references in this article to TCM syndrome differentiation, herbal medicines, teas, and decoctions are intended to promote TCM culture and are provided solely for educational and reference purposes.

Changchun Dan,For various deficiencies.

Formulas Name : Changchun Dan

Chinese Name : 长春丹

Drug Formulation

Half a jin of Vajra Bone, 4 liang of Psoralea corylifolia (soaked in wine overnight, then lightly roasted until dry).

Source

From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 153), citing *Secret Formulas Based on Clinical Experience*.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder; mix with vinegar paste to form pills the size of a tung seed.

Benefits

For various deficiencies.

Instructions for Use

Take 50 pills per dose on an empty stomach, washed down with warm wine, followed by a dry food to settle the stomach.

Changchun Dan,From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 153), citing *Secret Formulas Based on Clinical Experience*.,For various deficiencies.

More Herbs Formulas

Chuanxiong-Danggui Decoction for Draining the Heart

Chuanxiong-Danggui Decoction for Draining the Heart,*Wan’s Gynecology*, Volume 3.,For postpartum stagnation of corrupted blood that ascends to affect the heart, causing distension and oppression beneath the heart, restlessness, confusion, delirium, and delusional speech, as if seeing ghosts or spirits.

Inner-Supporting Astragalus Decoction

Inner-Supporting Astragalus Decoction,From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 9.,Ulcers on the outer side of the thigh, possibly caused by cold and dampness, resulting in a bone-adhering abscess along the Foot-Shaoyang Meridian, slightly invading the Foot-Yangming Meridian, presenting as hard, diffuse swelling, pain when walking, or an inability to walk.

Stomach Qi Pills

Stomach Qi Pills,*San Yin*, Volume 11.,Excessive worry and anxiety lead to stagnation of spleen and lung qi, causing phlegm and fluid to accumulate and stagnate in the stomach and intestines. Qi becomes depressed in the Yin, while cold condenses in the Yang; the Yin and Yang become disordered, resulting in alternating vomiting and diarrhea, cold … Read more

Platycladus Powder

Platycladus Powder,From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 189.,Nosebleeds in men.

Liuhe Decoction

Liuhe Decoction,*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 390.,Malaria characterized by more cold than heat; heat resulting from food stagnation and malnutrition.

Detoxifying Purple Gold Ointment

Detoxifying Purple Gold Ointment,*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 3.,For sycamore-induced toxic sores that have become gangrenous and foul-smelling, with oozing pus and serous fluid, where other treatments have failed; also effective for various stubborn toxic sores and chronic ulcers.

Elixir for All Illnesses

Elixir for All Illnesses,*Medical Convenience*, Volume 2.,For severe cases of internal damp-heat injuring the blood.

Three-Yellow Blood-Nourishing Decoction

Three-Yellow Blood-Nourishing Decoction,From *The Secret Treasures of the Orchid Chamber*, Volume 1.,For hemoptysis or epistaxis, accompanied by all six pulses being large, a hollow sensation upon palpation, palpitations and easily startled, a flushed face, and heat in the upper body. For unstoppable epistaxis with a soft and rapid pulse.

Formula for Stopping Sweating

Formula for Stopping Sweating,*A Hundred Questions on Infants and Children*, Volume 9.,For spontaneous sweating due to superficial deficiency.

Hu Yinzhi’s Double Deer Pills

Hu Yinzhi’s Double Deer Pills,From *Supplement to the Omissions of the Inner Canon*, Volume 4.,Deficiency of kidney essence, leading to seminal emission.

Chen Zhu Hu Jing Pills

Chen Zhu Hu Jing Pills,From *Lingyuan Fang*, cited in *The Great Compendium of the Yongle Era*, Volume 981.,For childhood convulsions and epilepsy.

Roasted Waist Powder

Roasted Waist Powder,From *Collected Works on Medicine*, Volume 3.,For lower back pain due to kidney deficiency, with soreness and weakness in the legs and knees.

Decoction for Clearing the Heart and Eliminating Toxins

Decoction for Clearing the Heart and Eliminating Toxins,*Complete Book of Experience in the Treatment of Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 6.,Toxic accumulation in the heart and intestines causes qi and blood to congeal, which then permeates the meridians and manifests on the skin as red threads running through the affected area—or as a single red line—accompanied … Read more

Great Efficacy Pills

Great Efficacy Pills,*Compendium of Sacred Remedies*, Volume 143.,Intestinal wind with bloody diarrhea.

Poria and Rehmannia Decoction

Poria and Rehmannia Decoction,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 23.,Stomach heat following a cold, causing a constant desire to drink and unrelenting thirst.

Scorpion Tail Powder

Scorpion Tail Powder,From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 385.,For wind-heat in children.

Cat’s Brain Bone Powder

Cat’s Brain Bone Powder,*Shenghui*, Volume 66.,Rat fistula.

Tianwang Buxin Dan

Tianwang Buxin Dan,*Guang Biji*, Volume 2.,Weakness; excessive worry; deficiency of heart blood; mental confusion and forgetfulness.

Tissue-Regenerating Seven-Treasure Pill

Tissue-Regenerating Seven-Treasure Pill,From *Extraordinary Formulas Beyond Surgical Prescriptions*, Volume 2.,Mastitis.

Jujube Porridge

Jujube Porridge,From *Shenghui*, Volume 96.,For wind-heat-induced restlessness and anxiety, intestinal disorders, and pathogenic qi in the abdomen.

Heguang Dan

Heguang Dan,From *Jifeng*, Volume 13.,For deficiency of True Yang and pain in the viscera.

Internal Tonifying Five-Spice Pills

Internal Tonifying Five-Spice Pills,*Shenghui*, Volume 61.,For abscesses with severe pus and blood discharge, where no new tissue is forming.

Old Man’s Divine Cane Powder

Old Man’s Divine Cane Powder,From *Wei Ji Bao Shu*, Volume 2.,Boils and abscesses.

Xichuan Luo’s Barefoot Immortal Youth-Restoring Pill

Xichuan Luo’s Barefoot Immortal Youth-Restoring Pill,From *Hong’s Collection of Proven Formulas*, Volume 1, citing a formula by Chen Huishu.,For all cases of deficiency syndrome characterized by depletion of mental clarity and vitality, lack of vigor, heaviness in the lower back and legs, physical fatigue, deficiency of qi and blood, cloudy urine, and chronic uterine cold; … Read more

Turnip Seed Powder

Turnip Seed Powder,From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 73.,Pain in red eyes.