Purgative Prescriptions Composed of Drugs Warm in nature
Dahuang Fuzi Tang
Name
Decoction of Rhubarb and Mankshood
The Prescription of Dahuang Fuzi Tang
Source
The book Jin Gui Yao Lue
Ingredients
Da Huang (Radix et Rhizoma Rhei) 9 g,Pao Fu Zi (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata) 9 g,Xi Xin (Herba Asari) 3 g.Explanation
Fu Zi: The principal drug, being pungent and sweet in flavor and extreme heat in nature, warming up Yang-Qi, dispelling pathogenic cold.
Xi Xin: Expelling pathogenic cold, resolving masses.
Da Huang: Relaxing the bowels to sweep away the stagnancy of food or other pathogenic factors.
The Effect of Dahuang Fuzi Tang
Effect
Warming up Yang-Qi dispersing pathogenic cold resolving masses, eliminating accumulation.
Indications
Syndrome due to cold accumulation of excess type in the interior, marked by abdominal pain, constipation, pain in the hypochondrium, fever, cold limbs, whitish greasy tongue coating and wiry tense pulse; including such diseases with the above symptoms as chronic dysentery uremia, ulcerative colitis, acute intestinal obstruction, etc.
Administrations
Decocted in water for oral dose to be taken 3 times. Because this prescription is intended to purge warmly, the dosage of Da Huang should be smaller than that of Fu Zi.
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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