Prescriptions for Promoting the Production of Body Fluids to Moisten Dryness
Zeng Ye Cheng Qi Tang (增液承气汤)
Name
Purgative Decoction for Increasing fluid and Sustaining Qi.
The Prescription of 增液承气汤
Source
The book Wen Bing Tiao Bian
Ingredients
Xuan Shen (Radix Scrophulariae) 30 g,Mai Dong (Radix Ophiopogonis) 25 g,Sheng Di (Radix Rehmanniae) 25 g,Da Huang (Radix et Rhizoma Rhei) 9 g,Mang Xiao (Natrii Sulfas) 5 g.Explanation
Da Huang: The principal drug, being bitter in flavor and cold in nature, purging heat, inducing bowel movements.
Sheng Di and Mai Dong: Nourishing Yin, promoting the production of body fluids, lubricating the bowels to cause defecation.
Mang Xiao: Resolving masses, removing pathogenic dryness.
The Effect of 增液承气汤
Effect
Nourishing Yin, promoting the production of body fluids, inducing bowel movements to purge heat.
Indications
Syndrome of constipation due to accumulation of pathogenic heat and exhaustion of body fluids, marked by dry stools, crimson tongue with littte coating and thready rapid pulse; including constipation due to hemorrhoid, liver abscess or tumor with the above symptoms.
Administrations
Decocted in water for oral dose to be taken 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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