Ginseng and Eight Ingredients Decoction，From *Records of Insights into Miscellaneous Disorders*, Volume 1.，Excessive yin repels yang, resulting in true cold internally and false heat externally. Symptoms include persistent high fever, thirst without desire to drink, restlessness and agitation, constipation, a tongue black as ink, blood-tinged urine, and a pulse that is either deficient and rapid or deep, fine, and rapid. This condition arises from constitutional weakness in dysentery, where residual pathogenic factors remain undischarged and deficient yang fails to consolidate.
Ginseng and Eight Ingredients Decoction
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Formulas Name : Ginseng and Eight Ingredients Decoction
Chinese Name : 人参八味汤
Drug Formulation
3 qian of Prepared Rehmannia, 3 qian of Chinese Yam (roasted), 1 qian 5 fen of Poria, 1 qian 5 fen of Ginseng, 1 qian of Moutan Bark, 1 qian of Cornus Fruit, 1 qian of Sichuan Aconite, 1 qian of Cinnamon Bark, 5 fen of Alisma.
Source
From *Records of Insights into Miscellaneous Disorders*, Volume 1.
Benefits
Excessive yin repels yang, resulting in true cold internally and false heat externally. Symptoms include persistent high fever, thirst without desire to drink, restlessness and agitation, constipation, a tongue black as ink, blood-tinged urine, and a pulse that is either deficient and rapid or deep, fine, and rapid. This condition arises from constitutional weakness in dysentery, where residual pathogenic factors remain undischarged and deficient yang fails to consolidate.
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Ginseng and Eight Ingredients Decoction,Excessive yin repels yang, resulting in true cold internally and false heat externally. Symptoms include persistent high fever, thirst without desire to drink, restlessness and agitation, constipation, a tongue black as ink, blood-tinged urine, and a pulse that is either deficient and rapid or deep, fine, and rapid. This condition arises from constitutional weakness in dysentery, where residual pathogenic factors remain undischarged and deficient yang fails to consolidate.