Prescriptions for Dispersing Exogenous Wind
Chuan Qiong Cha Diao San (川芎茶调散)
Name
Chuanxiong Mixture
The Prescription of 川芎茶调散
Source
The book Tai Ping Hui Min He Ji Ju Fang
Ingredients
Chuan Xiong (Rhizoma Chuanxiong) 120 g,Jing Jie (Herba Schizonepetae) 120 g,Bai Zhi (Radix Angelicae Dahuricae) 60 g,Qiang Huo (Rhizoma seu Radix Notopterygii) 60 g,Gan Cao (Radix Glycyrrhizae) 60 g,Xi Xin (Herba Asari) 45 g,Fang Feng (Radix Saposhinkoviae) 45 g,Bo He (Herba Menthae) 240 g.Explanation
Chuan Xiong, Bai Zhi and Qiang Huo: The principal drugs, dispelling wind pathogen and relieving pain.
Xi Xin: Removing cold to relieve pain.
Bo He: Being used in larger dose so as to refresh the mind and dispel wind and heat pathogens.
Jing Jie and Fang Feng: Being pungent in taste and disperse in nature, dispelling wind pathogen in the upper body.
Gan Cao: Tempering the actions of all the other ingredients.
Tea: Being bitter in flavor and cold in nature, refreshing the mind, restraining the over-warm, over-dry, over-ascending, and over-dispersing nature of drugs for treating wind syndromes so as to coordinate their ascending and descending nature.
The Effect of 川芎茶调散
Effect
Dispelling wind pathogen and relieving pain.
Indications
Wind syndrome of head, marked by migraine, headache, or ache in the vertex, aversion to cold, fever, dizziness, stuffy nose, thin whitish tongue coating, and floating pulse; including such diseases with the above symptoms as chronic rhinitis, nasosinusitis and neuroheadache.
Administrations
All the ingredients are ground into fine powder, 6 g of which is taken with tea each time, twice daily.
Sources and further reading
We cite classical materia medica and modern reference works. This article is health education, not medical advice.
- Shennong Bencao Jing (The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica), Han dynasty.
- Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica), Li Shizhen, 1578.
- Chinese Pharmacopoeia, current edition — identity, quality and safety monographs.
- NCCIH and WHO reference material on traditional medicine safety.
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