Prescriptions for Warming the Middle-Jiao to Dispel Pathogenic Cold
Da Jianzhong Tang
Name
Major Decoction for Rehabilitating the Middle-Jiao
The Prescription of Da Jianzhong Tang
Source
The book Jin Gui Yao Lue
Ingredients
Shu Jiao (Pericarpium Zanthoxyli) 3 g,Gan Jiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis) 4.5 g,Ren Shen (Radix Ginseng) 6 g,Yi Tang (Saccharum Granorum) 30 g.Explanation
Shu Jiao: The principal drug, being pungent in flavor and hot in nature, warming the spleen and stomach, aiding the fire of Ming Men, thus expelling cold and removing dampness, descending Qi to relieve stagnation.
Gan Jiang: Warming the middle-Jiao to dispel cold, assisting Shu Jiao in rehabilitating the Yang-Qi of the middle-Jiao and dispersing the Qi adversely flowing, felieving pain and stopping vomiting.
Ren Shen and Yi Tang: Being sweet in flavor and warm in nature, warming and invigorating the middle-Jiao to replenish the spleen and stomach.
The Effect of Da Jianzhong Tang
Effect
Warming the middle-Jiao to nourish the spleen and stomach, descending the adverse fiow of Qi to relieve pain.
Indications
Syndrome due to weakened Yang-Qi of the middle-Jiao and excessive Yin-cold in the interior, mafked by colic pain in the chest and epigastric region, inability to take food due to vomiting, clear-cut and mobile and painful abdominal masses averse to palpation due to cold within the abdomen, whitish slippery tongue coating, thready tense pulse, even cold limbs and hidden pulse, or borborygmus; including such diseases with the above symptoms as chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, chronic pancreatitis, chronic cholecystitis, biliary ascariasis and intestinal tuberculosis.
Administrations
The first 3 ingredients in the prescription were first decocted twice for the decoction into which 30 g of Yi Tang was put, taken warm twice.
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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