白通汤

白通汤 is also named The Prescription of Baitong Tang, 白通湯

Source

The book Shang Han Lun

Ingredients

Explanation

Cong Bai: Dispelling wind-cold, and invigorating yang.

Fu Zi: Being good at supporting the congenital true fire of Ming Men, promoting the circulation of Qi and blood throughout the twelve regular channels, used raw to act on the whole body rapidly to warm up Yang-Qi and dispel cold.

Gan Jiang: warming the Yang-Qi of the middle-Jiao to remove cold in the interior, assisting Fu Zi in promoting the generation of Yang-Qi.

Effect

Recuperating depleted Yang and breaking yin.

Administration

Decocted in water for oral dose to be taken twice.