Prescriptions for Dispersing Exogenous Wind
Ju Hua Cha Diao San (菊花茶调散)
Name
The Prescription of 菊花茶调散
Source
The book Dan Xi Xin Fa Fu Yu
Ingredients
Ju Hua 60 g,Chuan Xiong 60 g,Jing Jie Sui 60 g,Qiang Huo 60 g,Gan Cao 60 g,Bai Zhi 60 g,Xi Xin 30 g,Fang Feng 45 g,Chan Tui 15 g,Jiang Can 15 g,Bo He 15 g.Explanation
Ju Hua: Dispersing wind-heat, subduing liver yang, and removing liver heat to improve vision, clearing lung heat.
Chuan Xiong, Bai Zhi and Qiang Huo: 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.
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.
Jiang Can: Extinguishing wind to relieve spasm, dispelling wind and alleviating pain, resolving phlegm and dissipating accumulation.
Chan Tui: Dispersing wind-cold, relieving sore throat, relieving itching and promoting eruption, improving vision and removing nebula, extinguishing wind to relieve spasms.
Gan Cao: Tempering the actions of all the other ingredients.
The Effect of 菊花茶调散
Effect
Refresh mind and improve vision, relieve exterior syndrome by means of diaphoresis to bring down a fever.
Indications
Common cold, headache, stuffy nose, celostomia.
Administrations
All the drugs are ground into fine powder. Take 6 g of the powder with green tea.
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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