Search for Herbal Teas Recipes by Symptom:

Shuangyu Pills

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.

Shuangyu Pills,For cases where stomach fire afflicts the lungs, causing shortness of breath and wheezing, which inevitably recur every summer.

Formulas Name : Shuangyu Pills

Chinese Name : 双玉丸

Drug Formulation

Soft gypsum and cold water stone (both calcined and quenched in ginger juice), in equal parts.

Source

From *The Mystic Pearl of Chishui*, Volume 26.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder; use licorice to prepare a thick decoction, then form it into pills the size of mung beans.

Benefits

For cases where stomach fire afflicts the lungs, causing shortness of breath and wheezing, which inevitably recur every summer.

Instructions for Use

Take 1 qian every night, washed down with plain hot water or lightly ginger-flavored hot water.

Shuangyu Pills,From *The Mystic Pearl of Chishui*, Volume 26.,For cases where stomach fire afflicts the lungs, causing shortness of breath and wheezing, which inevitably recur every summer.

More Herbs Formulas

Ginseng-Cinnamon-Deer Antler Pills

Ginseng-Cinnamon-Deer Antler Pills,*Compendium of Pills, Powders, Ointments, and Elixirs*.,For deficiency-syndrome weakness, aversion to cold with cold limbs, soreness and weakness in the lower back and knees, loss of appetite, and loose stools.

Eye-Protecting Ointment

Eye-Protecting Ointment,*The Jade Case*, Volume 6.,After the appearance of smallpox spots, when there is severe heat in the Liver and Spleen meridians, causing both eyes to become swollen and red.

Divine Elimination Powder for External Hemorrhoids

Divine Elimination Powder for External Hemorrhoids,From *The Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 23.,External hemorrhoids.

Clove Decoction

Clove Decoction,From *Zhang’s Family Tradition*, cited in Volume 21 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.,For disharmony of the spleen and stomach, diarrhea and dysentery, pallor and sallow complexion due to cold injury, chest pain, restlessness of the viscera, and masses or lumps.

Wheat Bran Paste

Wheat Bran Paste,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 84.,During the cold months, people often endure the cold, causing blood to stagnate and fail to disperse, resulting in heel pain—regardless of whether it is on the left or right foot—manifesting as a dull, aching sensation.

White Rose Essence Wine

White Rose Essence Wine,*The Great Dictionary of Chinese Medicine*.,Effective for various types of wind-induced pain.

Intestinal-Astringent Pills

Intestinal-Astringent Pills,From *Bai Yi*, Volume 6.,Chronic diarrhea.

Hair-Regrowth Tincture

Hair-Regrowth Tincture,*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.,Seborrheic alopecia.

Dingchuan Tingli Pills

Dingchuan Tingli Pills,From *The Mystic Pearl of Chishui*, Volume 5.,For abdominal distension, wheezing, and cough.

Olive Paste

Olive Paste,From *Essentials of the Crimson Pouch*.,For epilepsy and dementia, as well as conditions caused by liver fire rising upward; where internal fire generates phlegm, which obscures the orifices of the heart, leading to mental confusion, epileptic seizures, and foaming at the mouth.

Quanzhen Yiqu Decoction

Quanzhen Yiqu Decoction,*Feng’s Treasure Chest: Notes on Medicinal Formulas*, Volume 20.,Yin-related restlessness; excess above and deficiency below; heat above and cold below; internal depletion of Yin and external excess of Yang; rashes accompanied by extreme heat and restlessness; shortness of breath above and diarrhea below. Severe yin-deficiency fever following a stroke; hemoptysis, shortness of breath, … Read more

White Jade Powder

White Jade Powder,*Compiled Medical Manuscripts*, Volume 21.,For breast abscesses in women, as well as all types of fungal infections and boils.

Aniseed and Softshell Turtle Carapace Pills

Aniseed and Softshell Turtle Carapace Pills,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 89.,For pain in the lower back and knees due to consumptive disease.

Poria, Ginger, Atractylodes, and Cinnamon Decoction

Poria, Ginger, Atractylodes, and Cinnamon Decoction,From *Treatise on Warm Diseases*, Volume 2.,Cold and dampness injure the yang of both the spleen and stomach, causing alternating chills and fever, loss of appetite, acid regurgitation, aversion to cold, or epigastric fullness and distension; or due to dampness accumulation in heavy drinkers.

Four-Processed Atractylodes Pills

Four-Processed Atractylodes Pills,From *Formulas of the Ruizhutang*, Volume 2.,Phlegm-fluid retention.

Wood Fragrance Decongestant Decoction

Wood Fragrance Decongestant Decoction,From *The Mystic Pearl of Chishui*, Volume 8.,Red and white dysentery.

Tonifying Formula

Tonifying Formula,Quoted from *Zhang Wenzhong’s Formulas* in Volume 17 of *Wai Tai*.,For consumptive disorders.

Realgar Ointment

Realgar Ointment,Formula from *Qianjin* (Vol. 22); name cited in *Puji Fang* (Vol. 300).,Method of Administration.

Four Treasures Ointment

Four Treasures Ointment,*Zhun Sheng: Pediatrics*, Volume 4.,After suffering from malaria, with alternating chills and fever causing severe wasting, the muscles gradually waste away; or, upon sudden recovery, smallpox may break out; or, while still suffering from malaria, smallpox may develop.

Si Ni San with Schisandra and Dried Ginger Decoction

Si Ni San with Schisandra and Dried Ginger Decoction,Formula from *Treatise on Cold Damage*; name cited in *Illustrated Songs on Cold Damage: A Guide to Saving Lives*, Volume 4.,For Shaoyin disease with symptoms of Si Ni, accompanied by cough or diarrhea.

Ying Qu’s Revitalizing Ointment

Ying Qu’s Revitalizing Ointment,*National Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas* (Yuxian Formula).,Foul sores and boils, unexplained swellings and abscesses, trauma from falls and blows, frostbite and chilblains, toothaches and mumps, beriberi and dog bites, back and mouth sores, rat-bite sores and scrofula, bone-invading ulcers, numbness in the hands and feet, loss of appetite and abdominal … Read more

Milk Porridge

Milk Porridge,From *The Prescriptions of the Emaciated Immortal for Saving Lives*, Volume 1.,

Qianghuo-Gui Zhi Decoction

Qianghuo-Gui Zhi Decoction,*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 51.,Wind-epilepsy.

Ci Yun Powder

Ci Yun Powder,*Compendium of Traumatology*, Volume 7.,For contusions and injuries, as well as abscesses, carbuncles, and severe toxic swellings—if treated at the onset, they will dissipate; if already formed, they will ulcerate.

Pills for Holding in the Mouth and Swallowing

Pills for Holding in the Mouth and Swallowing,*Shenghui*, Volume 35.,For sore throat.