当归拈痛汤

Source

The book Lan Shi Mi Cang

Ingredients

• Bai Zhu 4.5 g,
• Ren Shen 6 g,
• Ku Shen 6 g,
• Sheng Ma 6 g,
• Ge Gen 6 g,
• Cang Zhu 6 g,
• Fang Feng 15 g,
• Zhi Mu 15 g,
• Ze Xie 15 g,
• Zhu Ling 9 g,
• Dang Gui 9 g,
• Zhi Gan Cao 15 g,
• Huang Qin 15 g,
• Yin Chen 15 g,
• Qiang Huo 15 g.

Explanation

Dang Gui: Tonifying blood and activating blood to alleviate pain, regulating menstruation, and moistening intestines.

Zhu Ling and Ze Xie: Draining dampness, removing excessive fluid by promoting diuresis.

Huang Qin: Clearing heat and drying dampness.

Sheng Ma: The principal drug, being pungent and sweet in flavor and slightly cold in nature, expelling pathogenic factors from the muscles and skin, promoting eruption, removing toxic substances.

Ge Gen: Assisting Sheng Ma in promoting eruption and expelling exo-pathogens, aiding in the production of body fluids.

Bai Zhu: Strengthening the spleen and drying dampness.

Cang Zhu: Drying dampness and invigorating spleen, dispelling wind-dampness.

Ren Shen: Tonifying qi.

Fang Feng: Dispersing wind pathogen to relieve exterior syndrome.

Qiang Huo: Going up to disperse wind-cold-dampness pathogens in the exterior.

Ku Shen: Clearing heat and drying dampness, purging fire and removing toxicity, killing parasites and inducing diuresis.

Zhi Mu: Clearing heat and purging fire, nourishing yin and moistening dryness.

Yin Chen: Clearing away dampness-heat to treat jaundice.

Zhi Gan Cao: Invigorating the spleen and stomach, tempering the actions of all the other ingredients.

Indications

Disease caused by damp-heat.

Administration

Decoct in water for oral dose to be taken on empty stomach.