Liu Yi Shunqi Decoction

Liu Yi Shunqi Decoction,For cases of Shanghan with real heat in both the exterior and interior, accompanied by severe constipation, dryness of the mouth and tongue, mental confusion and delirium, and hardness, fullness, and pain in the chest and abdomen; or for cases where purgation in the Yangming channel has failed, resulting in hiccups; or for cases of bloody or white diarrhea where both the exterior and interior are affected by real heat.

Formulas Name : Liu Yi Shunqi Decoction

Chinese Name : 六一顺气汤

Drug Formulation

Rhubarb, Zhi Shi, Astragalus, Magnolia Bark, Licorice, Bupleurum, Sodium Silicate, Peony.

Source

*Six Treatises on Cold Damage*, Volume 3.

Benefits

For cases of Shanghan with real heat in both the exterior and interior, accompanied by severe constipation, dryness of the mouth and tongue, mental confusion and delirium, and hardness, fullness, and pain in the chest and abdomen; or for cases where purgation in the Yangming channel has failed, resulting in hiccups; or for cases of bloody or white diarrhea where both the exterior and interior are affected by real heat.

Instructions for Use

First, bring 2 zhong of water to a rolling boil three times, then add the herbs and decoct until reduced to 8 fen. Just before taking, mix in 3 spoons of rust water and take as directed.

Liu Yi Shunqi Decoction,*Six Treatises on Cold Damage*, Volume 3.,For cases of Shanghan with real heat in both the exterior and interior, accompanied by severe constipation, dryness of the mouth and tongue, mental confusion and delirium, and hardness, fullness, and pain in the chest and abdomen; or for cases where purgation in the Yangming channel has failed, resulting in hiccups; or for cases of bloody or white diarrhea where both the exterior and interior are affected by real heat.

More Herbs Formulas

Modified Ganlu Decoction

Modified Ganlu Decoction,From *The Mystic Pearl of Chishui*, Volume 3.,For men, women, and children with external heat in the Stomach Meridian, manifested as bad breath, loose teeth, red eyes, mouth sores, all types of pain, as well as thirst in the Upper Jiao and a foul odor in the throat.

Dendrobium and Artemisia Decoction

Dendrobium and Artemisia Decoction,*Essentials for Those Unfamiliar with Medicine*, Volume 2.,For heat syndromes with mild fire, not accompanied by high fever.

Life-Saving Night-Bright Sand Pills

Life-Saving Night-Bright Sand Pills,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 173.,For childhood malnutrition.

Decoction for Regulating the Essence and Eliminating Toxins

Decoction for Regulating the Essence and Eliminating Toxins,*Records on Smallpox and Measles* (Dou Zhen Chuan Xin Lu), Volume 19.,Smallpox. In cases where fever precedes the eruption of smallpox by 1–2 days, and the lesions first appear on the forehead, temples, or between the eyebrows; or where they erupt simultaneously and densely; or where they are … Read more

Muxiang-Shenqu Pills

Muxiang-Shenqu Pills,*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 181.,For men and women suffering from abdominal masses causing pain.

Wild Boar Meat Soup

Wild Boar Meat Soup,From *Nourishing the Elderly and Honoring Parents*.,For elderly patients with the “Five Types of Hemorrhoids” that have persisted for a long time without improvement and have developed painful sores.

Anthelmintic Wu-yi Powder

Anthelmintic Wu-yi Powder,*Shenghui*, Volume 90.,For sores on a child’s head, face, or body that have persisted for a long time and are itchy.

Chaihu-Gualou-Ganjing Decoction

Chaihu-Gualou-Ganjing Decoction,From *Selected Essentials of Medicine*.,Cold malaria.

Drink When Pain Occurs

Drink When Pain Occurs,*Guide to Gynecology*, Volume 1.,For menstrual pain in women.

Herbal Honey Decoction

Herbal Honey Decoction,*The Direct Pointers*, Volume 15.,Heat in the heart and kidneys, with difficulty urinating.

Ping Shun San

Ping Shun San,From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.,Following emotional distress, when the liver suffers from blood dryness and the lungs from qi heat, resulting in persistent hiccups.

Cinnamon Twig and Pueraria Decoction

Cinnamon Twig and Pueraria Decoction,*Treatise on Cold Damage*.,Exogenous wind-cold invasion, stiffness in the neck and back, sweating, and aversion to wind; measles, dysentery, and gastrointestinal disorders presenting with the aforementioned symptoms. Taiyang syndrome. Cold malaria; cold injuring the Yangming channel; more cold than heat. Early stage of measles, when the rash has just appeared but … Read more

Brow Center Ointment

Brow Center Ointment,From *Li Ye*.,For chronic malaria lasting for years, with persistent chills and fever, in robust individuals.

Minor Bupleurum Decoction with Rhubarb

Minor Bupleurum Decoction with Rhubarb,*Collected Formulas for the Very Young*, Volume 2.,For pediatric shanghan with internal heat, aversion to heat, sticking one’s head out and exposing the face, flailing arms and kicking legs, restlessness, dry stools, and lifting one’s clothes with heavy breathing.

Changshan Wine

Changshan Wine,Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 52); name cited in *Shengji Zonglu* (Vol. 35).,For phlegm-obstruction malaria with intermittent attacks that will not cease.

Youth-Preserving Small Return Pill

Youth-Preserving Small Return Pill,From *The Mystic Pearl of the Red Water*, Volume 10.,For all types of deficiency and debility.

Xanthium Seed Powder

Xanthium Seed Powder,*Jisheng Fang*,Dispels wind and relieves pain; clears and opens the nasal passages. Indicated for nasal discharge with persistent turbid mucus. The original formula is used for nasal discharge caused by ascending wind-pathogen. Clinically, this formula may be modified to treat acute and chronic rhinitis, sinusitis, and allergic rhinitis—provided the condition is attributed to … Read more

Siwu Kuandong Pills

Siwu Kuandong Pills,Quoted from *Xiaopin Fang* in Volume 36 of *Wai Tai*.,For children with coughs that improve during the day but worsen at night, so severe at first that they cannot catch their breath or even cry.

Like the Sacred Golden Knife Powder

Like the Sacred Golden Knife Powder,From *Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 4.,For boils and abscesses on the back, various types of ulcerations, poison from club wounds, and gunshot wounds.

Pine Mistletoe Powder

Pine Mistletoe Powder,*Selected Formulas of Renowned Physicians*.,Leucorrhea.

Willow Light Powder

Willow Light Powder,From *Yu’an*, Volume 6.,For all stubborn cases of tinea.

Elixir to Disperse Stagnation

Elixir to Disperse Stagnation,*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 6.,The condition of mental dullness resembles dementia: the patient remains silent, appears dazed and absent-minded, seems on the verge of madness but cannot fully lose control, and desires to act wildly but dares not. At times, the patient sleeps for several days without waking; at … Read more

Daizhe Powder

Daizhe Powder,*Shenghui* (Volume 12).,For typhoid fever, following sweating, vomiting, or purgation, presenting with fullness and distension in the epigastrium and abdomen, and impaired qi circulation in the chest and diaphragm.

Qionghua Paste

Qionghua Paste,From *The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 4.,Effective for sycamore-berry sores, toxic nodules causing pain in the tendons and bones, all types of lower back and leg pain, and various toxic and malignant sores.

Qi-Regulating, Nourishing, and Intestinal-Warming Pills

Qi-Regulating, Nourishing, and Intestinal-Warming Pills,From *The Mystic Pearl of the Red Water*, Volume 15.,Inducing sweating and promoting urination lead to the loss of body fluids, resulting in severe constipation.