bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

Take the four herbs mentioned above, soak them in a cup of wine (200 ml) for one night (12 hours), then squeeze out the juice. Take two pounds (1 kg) of Unprocessed Rehmannia Root, chop it finely, and steam it for as long as it takes to cook a pot of rice. Collect the juice in a copper vessel, then squeeze out the Rehmannia juice again, mix it, and divide it into two portions.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Enriching yin and cooling blood, expelling wind and dredging collaterals.

bubble_chart Indications

Wind enters the heart meridian, yin deficiency with blood heat, the disease manifests as madness, reckless behavior, incessant soliloquy, absence of chills or fever, floating pulse; or blood deficiency with wind predominance, wriggling of limbs, convulsions, red tongue with little coating, weak pulse, mental fatigue, yin deficiency with wind-dampness transforming into heat, red painful skin patches resembling wandering fire. Currently used for wind-dampness arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, hysteria, epilepsy, and other conditions characterized by yin deficiency with latent heat.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

The formula heavily uses Unprocessed Rehmannia Root (Huang ) to nourish true yin and cool blood, serving as the sovereign; Stephania Tetrandra () excels in dredging wind-dampness from the meridians and also clears heat, acting as the minister; Saposhnikovia Root () and Cinnamon Twig () harmonize the nutrient and defensive aspects, release the flesh, and disperse wind, serving as the assistants; Liquorice Root () regulates and tonifies the spleen and stomach, harmonizing all the herbs, acting as the envoy. Combined into a formula, it collectively achieves the effects of enriching yin and cooling blood, expelling wind and dredging collaterals.