Prescriptions for Clearing away Heat in Zang-Fu Organs
Zuojin Wan
Name
Pill for Treating the Lung
The Prescription of Zuojin Wan
Source
The book Da Xi Xin Fa
Ingredients
Huang Lian (Rhizoma Coptidis) 9 g,Wu Zhu Yu (Fructus Euodiae) 1.5 g.Explanation
Huang Lian: The principal drug, being bitter in flavor and cold in nature, removing heat, purging fire.
Wu Zhu Yu: Being pungent in taste and hot in nature, restricting the cold nature ofHuang Lian, exerting the potency to the liver to descend the adverse flow of Qi, promoting the coordination befween the stomach and the liver.
The Effect of Zuojin Wan
Effect
Clearing away pathogenic heat and fire from the liver, descending the adverse flow of Qi to arrest vomiting.
Indications
Syndrome due to pathogenic rire in the liver produced by stagnation of the liver-Qi and due to attacking of the Liver-fire on the stomach, marked by distending pain in the hypochondriac region, heart-burning, regurgitation of sour fluid, vomiting, bitter taste in the mouth, fullness sensation in the stomach, eructation, reddened tongue with yellowish coating, and taut rapid pulse; including such diseases with the above symptoms as acute gastritis, gastroduodenal ulcer and nonicteric infective hepatitis.
Administrations
Decocted in water for oral dose to be taken twice (Taken originally in the form of pills)
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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