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Combination |
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Indication |
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5
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Pulsatilla Decoction
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Pulsatillae Radix; Phellodendri Chinensis Cortex; Coptidis Rhizoma; Fraxini Cortex
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Clears heat, resolves toxins, cools the blood, and arrests dysentery.
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This formula is indicated for heat toxin bloody dysentery. The symptoms are stools with pus and fresh blood, abdominal pain, abdominal urgency with rectal heaviness, burning sensation in the anus, thirst with a desire to drink, a red tongue with yellow coating, and a slippery, rapid pulse.
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6
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Lophatherum and Gypsum Decoction
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Lophatheri Herba; Gypsum Fibrosum; Pinelliae Rhizoma; Ophiopogonis Radix; Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma; Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma; Semen Oryza Sativa
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Clears heat and generates fluids, boosts qi and harmonizes the stomach.
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Cold damage, warm disease, summerheat disease with residual heat, and damage of both qi and fluid. The signs include body fever, profuse sweating, chest distress and restlessness, nausea, dry mouth and polydipsia, low spirits and weak breathing, dry throat and lips, poor appetite, cough and choking, insomnia, a red tongue with little coating, and a weak and rapid pulse.
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7
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Peony Decoction
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Paeoniae Radix Alba; Angelicae Sinensis Radix; Coptidis Rhizoma; Arecae Semen; Aucklandiae Radix; Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma; Rhei Radix et Rhizoma; Scutellariae Radix; Cinnamomi Cortex
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Clears heat in the large intestine, dries dampness, invigorates the blood, and moves qi.
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This formula is indicated for damp-heat dysentery. The symptoms are dysentery with stool containing pus and blood, abdominal pain, abdominal urgency with rectal heaviness, burning sensation in the anus, scant dark urine, a greasy yellow tongue coating, and a wiry rapid pulse.
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8
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Sweet Wormwood and Turtle Shell Decoction
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Artemisiae Annuae Herba; Trionycis Carapax; Rehmanniae Radix; Anemarrhenae Rhizoma; Moutan Cortex
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Nourishes yin and vents heat.
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This formula is indicated for patterns where yin has been damaged along with latent pathogens. The symptoms are night fever that abates at dawn, fever that abates without sweating, a red tongue body with a scanty coating, and a thready, rapid pulse.
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