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Prescriptions for Consolidating the Superficies to Stop Sweating

Yupingfeng San

玉屏风散 玉屏風散
By the TCMHH editorial team Not medically reviewed How we work Updated 6 Oct 2026
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Jadescreen Powder

The Prescription of Yupingfeng San

Source

The book Dan Xi Xin Fa

Ingredients

Fang Feng (Radix Saposhinkoviae) 30 g,Huang Qi (Radix Astragali) 30 g,Bai Zhu (Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae) 60 g.

Explanation

Huang Qi: Replenishing Qi to consolidate the superficial resistance.

Bai Zhu: Strengthening the spleen to invigorate Qi, working together with Huang Qi to ensure the flourish or Qi and the consolidation of the superficial resistance, thus preventing excessive perspiration and invasion of exogenous pathogens.

Fang Feng: Being pungent in flavor and warm in nature, dispelling pathogenic wind, working together with Huang Qi to consolidate the superficies with pathogens expelled and expel pathogenic factors with vital Qi unhurt.

The Effect of Yupingfeng San

Effect

Replenishing Qi, consolidating the superficial resistance, arresting spontaneous sweating.

Indications

Syndrome of spontaneous sweating due to deficiency of the superficies, marked by aversion to wind, puffy and pale complexion, pale tongue with thin whitish coating, and floating weak pulse; including such diseases with the above symptoms as chronic rhinitis, allergic rhinitis and respiratory tract infection.

Administrations

All the ingredients are ground into fine powder. 6-9 g of the powder is taken each time, twice daily. (Taken also in the form of decoction with the amounts of the ingredients reduced properly according to a patient's condition and the proportions of the drugs in the original prescription).

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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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