【Chinese Name】 |
百合固金湯
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【Phonetic】 |
Bai He Gu Jin Tang
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【English Name】 |
Lily Bulb Metal-Securing Decoction |
【Classification】 |
Dryness-moistening formulas |
【Source】 |
《Medical Theory of Master of Meditation Room》Shen Zhai Yi Shu《慎齋遺書》 |
【Combination】 |
Rehmanniae Radix Praeparata (Shu Di Huang) 3 qian (9g), Rehmanniae Radix (Sheng Di) 3 qian (9g), Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Dang Gui) 3 qian (9g), Paeoniae Radix Alba (Bai Shao) 1 qian (6g), Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Gan Cao) 1 qian (3g), Platycodonis Radix (Jie Geng) 8 fen (6g), Scrophulariae Radix (Xuan Shen) 1.5 qian (3g), Fritillariae Bulbus (Bei Mu) 1.5 qian (6g), Ophiopogonis Radix (Mai Dong) 1.5 qian (9g), Lilii Bulbus (Bai He) 1.5 qian (12g) |
【Method】 |
Prepare the ingredients as a decoction. |
【Action】 |
Enriches and nourishes the lung and kidney, relieves cough and dissolves phlegm. |
【Indication】 |
Bai He Gu Jin Tang is indicated for a pattern of lung-kidney yin deficiency with deficiency fire flaming upward. The symptoms are coughing, labored breathing, blood in the sputum, dry and sore throat, dizziness and blurred vision, afternoon tidal fever. The tongue is red with scanty coating, and the pulse is thready and rapid. |
【Pathogenesis】 |
This pattern results from yin deficiency of the lung and kidney. The lung is the mother of the kidney so lung deficiency often affects the kidney to cause yin deficiency of both the lung and kidney due to protracted disease. Yin deficiency leads to internal heat and deficiency fire flaming upward, causing the failure of the lung to purify and descend, and produce coughing and labored breathing. Deficiency fire scorches body fluids and causes a dry, sore throat and an afternoon tidal fever. Vessels are scorched which causes blood in the sputum. Suitable therapeutic methods include nourishing the yin-blood of the lung and kidney combined with clearing heat, dissolving phlegm and relieving cough. The purpose is to treat the root and branch simultaneously. |
【Application】 |
1. Essential pattern differentiation This formula is commonly used to treat lung-kidney yin deficiency with deficiency fire flaming upward to cause coughing with blood in the sputum. This clinical pattern is marked by cough, labored breathing, dry and sore throat, red tongue with scanty coating, thready and rapid pulse. 2. Modern applications This formula is commonly used in the following biomedically defined disorders when the patient shows signs of lung-kidney yin deficiency with deficiency fire flaming upward: tuberculosis, chronic bronchitis, expectoration of blood caused by bronchiectasis, chronic pharyngo-laryngitis, and spontaneous pneumothorax. |
【Additonal formulae】 |
Bu Fei E Jiao Tang (Lung-Supplementing Donkey-Hide Gelatin Decoction 补肺阿胶汤) [Source]《Key to Diagnosis and Treatment of Children’s Diseases》Xiao Er Yao Zheng Zhi Jue《小儿药证直诀》 [Ingredients] E jiao 1.5 liang (9g), niu bang zi 2.5 qian (1.5g), zhi gan cao 2.5 qian (1.5g), ma dou ling 5 qian (6g), xing ren 7 pieces (6g), nuo mi 1 liang (6g) [Preparation and Administration] Grind the ingredients into powder, take 1 to 2 qian (6g) powder at a time, prepare the powder as a decoction, take the warm decoction after meal [Actions] Supplements yin and boosts the lung, and clears heat to stanch bleeding. [Applicable Patterns] Lung heat from yin deficiency pattern in children. Symptoms include: coughing, labored breathing, dry throat, sound in the throat, or blood in the sputum, a red tongue body with scanty tongue coating, and a thready, rapid pulse. |
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