Search for Herbal Teas Recipes by Symptom:

Decoction for Nourishing Yin and Clearing the Liver

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.

Decoction for Nourishing Yin and Clearing the Liver,For cases where fire and dryness generate wind, causing fever; when the fever is severe and accompanied by pain in the flanks, and the head, face, hands, and feet appear swollen.

Formulas Name : Decoction for Nourishing Yin and Clearing the Liver

Chinese Name : 滋水清肝饮

Drug Formulation

Rehmannia glutinosa (prepared), Chinese yam, Cornus officinalis fruit, Moutan bark, Poria cocos, Alisma orientale, Bupleurum root, White peony root, Gardenia fruit, Jujube seed, Angelica sinensis root.

Source

*Xitang Gansheng* (Volume 1).

Benefits

For cases where fire and dryness generate wind, causing fever; when the fever is severe and accompanied by pain in the flanks, and the head, face, hands, and feet appear swollen.

Decoction for Nourishing Yin and Clearing the Liver,*Xitang Gansheng* (Volume 1).,For cases where fire and dryness generate wind, causing fever; when the fever is severe and accompanied by pain in the flanks, and the head, face, hands, and feet appear swollen.

More Herbs Formulas

Jingfang Qingbiao Decoction

Jingfang Qingbiao Decoction,*Gu’s Medical Pathway*, Volume 5.,Pediatric smallpox cases caused by wind obstruction, heat stagnation, and pathogenic turbidity, resulting in a fever lasting more than 3 days, where the expected rash has not appeared, and the patient is afebrile and averse to wind.

Ban Ti Dan

Ban Ti Dan,*The Great Dictionary of Chinese Medicine*.,Sores and abscesses.

Two-Bean Powder

Two-Bean Powder,*Effective Remedies*, Volume 15.,Symptoms of stagnation and turbidity: tinnitus and restlessness, heaviness and pain in the lower back and legs, rumbling sounds in the abdomen, cold pain below the navel, and frequent discharge of white fluid resembling dishwater.

Scorpion and Aconite Decoction

Scorpion and Aconite Decoction,From Volume 10 of *The Great Compendium of Medical Formulas*, citing a formula by Tang.,Convulsions. Twitching of the hands and feet, with excessive saliva rising and accumulating.

Blood-Activating and Vision-Clarifying Decoction

Blood-Activating and Vision-Clarifying Decoction,From *Zhang Jiachun’s Diagnosis and Treatment of Ophthalmic Disorders*.,For blood flooding the pupil caused by external injury.

Eye-Brightening Decoction

Eye-Brightening Decoction,From *Handbook for the Care of Infants and Children*, Volume 2.,For children with internal heat in the heart and spleen, and the liver affected by wind-pathogen, resulting in photophobia that persists for a long time without healing.

Eight-Ingredient Dragon Bone Powder

Eight-Ingredient Dragon Bone Powder,Quoted from *Xiaopin Fang* in Volume 16 of *Wai Tai*.,For children with high fever, thirst, and dysentery.

Changshan Baihu Decoction

Changshan Baihu Decoction,Formula from *Medical Case Records of Zhang Cigong*; name cited in *Famous Formulas of Ancient and Modern Times*.,Warm malaria. High fever, poor sweating, aching joints, shortness of breath and restlessness, thirst with a craving for cold drinks, yellow tongue coating, and a洪 pulse.

Xiao Qinglong Decoction (without Ma Huang) with Added Apricot Kernels

Xiao Qinglong Decoction (without Ma Huang) with Added Apricot Kernels,Formula from *Treatise on Cold Damage*; name cited in *Compendium of Sacred Remedies*, Volume 24.,For cases of shanghan where the exterior syndrome has not resolved, with water retention beneath the epigastrium, dry retching, fever, and coughing and wheezing.

Ma-Gan-Tofu Decoction

Ma-Gan-Tofu Decoction,*Qian Jia Miao Fang*, Volume 2.,Phlegm-heat obstructing the lungs, causing impaired lung dispersion and descent, resulting in childhood asthma.

Qianghuo Wind-Dispelling Decoction

Qianghuo Wind-Dispelling Decoction,From *Yin Hai Jing Wei*, Volume 2.,Damp-heat stagnation in the spleen and lung channels; pathogenic factors lodged in the skin and muscle layers; swelling of the upper and lower eyelids resembling peaches; pain and dryness; tears flowing ceaselessly like a stream.

Poria and Atractylodes Powder

Poria and Atractylodes Powder,From *Wai Tai*, Volume 32, citing *Shen Shi’s Formulas*.,Gray hair and hair loss.

Agarwood Si Mo Decoction

Agarwood Si Mo Decoction,From *Supplement to the Essentials of Prescriptions Collected from Observations*, Volume 3, citing *Family Treasures*.,Cold qi surging upward, causing pain in the chest and abdomen.

Red Snow

Red Snow,From *Essentials of the Treatment of Beriberi*, Volume 2.,For beriberi, toxic qi, internal and external feverishness, sores, swelling, and delirious screaming; as well as various mineral toxins, epidemic miasmas, and all forms of wind-heat.

Plum and Persimmon Decoction

Plum and Persimmon Decoction,From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 6.,Chronic cough and sore throat.

Dou-Ge Powder

Dou-Ge Powder,From *Secret Formulas for Immediate Relief from the Blue Sack*, Volume 2.,For adults and children with open, oozing sores on the head and face; yellow-water sores that cause tissue to rot wherever the fluid spreads, or form thick crusts; and for treating blood-wind sores on the legs and feet.

Alcohol-Relieving and Tendon-Relaxing Powder

Alcohol-Relieving and Tendon-Relaxing Powder,From *Dian Dian Jing*, Volume 2.,Alcohol-induced injury, paralysis and coldness of the limbs, numbness and loss of sensation, hemiplegia.

Immortal of the Western Peak’s Lingfei Powder

Immortal of the Western Peak’s Lingfei Powder,*Qian Jin*, Volume 27.,

Purple Void Primordial Lady’s Headache Pill

Purple Void Primordial Lady’s Headache Pill,From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 24), citing *Immortal Formulas for Emergency Treatment*.,Headache.

Jusheng Qizi Pills

Jusheng Qizi Pills,*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 50.,For gray hair; all types of qi disorders.

Zhenkan Powder

Zhenkan Powder,From *Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formulations* (Hangzhou Formula).,Fluid retention and distension. The abdomen is abnormally enlarged, swollen and hard as a drum; there is counterflow of qi, shortness of breath, and a sensation of fullness; urination and defecation are obstructed; and the face and eyes are edematous.

Jianjin Powder

Jianjin Powder,*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 189, citing *Formulas from the Guide*.,Epistaxis.

Dingyu Lizhong Decoction

Dingyu Lizhong Decoction,*Medical Canon of the Golden Mirror*,Strengthens the stomach, regulates qi, and stops vomiting. Indications: Vomiting due to stomach cold; vomiting that occurs only after a long time following a meal.

Goji Berry Paste

Goji Berry Paste,*Explanation of Ophthalmology*, Volume 3.,Reading strains the eyes; after the age of forty, yin energy begins to wane, the brilliance of the eyes gradually diminishes, and vision becomes blurry.

Bear Bile Ointment

Bear Bile Ointment,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 132.,For all types of malignant sores.