The Prescription of Da Yuan Yin

Source

The book Wen Yi Lun

Ingredients

• Bing Lang 6 g,
• Hou Po 3 g,
• Cao Guo 1.5 g,
• Zhi Mu 3 g,
• Shao Yao 3 g,
• Huang Qin 3 g,
• Gan Cao 1.5 g.

Explanation

Huang Qin: Purging the stagnated heat.

Hou Po and Cao Guo: Being pungent in taste and drastic in nature, eliminating turbidity, drying dampness, resolving phlegm, regulating the Qi of the middle-Jiao.

Bing Lang: Directing Qi go downwards to relieve its stagnation, promoting the flow of Qi of the lower-Jiao.

Shao Yao: Tonifying blood.

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

Zhi Gan Cao: Invigorating Qi, regulating the stomach, tempering the actions of all the other ingredients.

Effect

Eliminating pathogenic factors from pleurodiaphragmatic interspace.

Indications

Malaria, pestilence, viral encephalitis, flu.

Administration

Decocted in water for oral dose to be taken twice.