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Ten Jujubes Decoction
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Genkwa Flos; Kansui Radix; Euphorbiae Pekinensis Radix
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Expels water by purgation.
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This formula is used for pleural rheum with chest and hypochondriac radiating pain caused by coughing and spitting. There is also hardness and distention below the heart, belching, shortness of breath, headache, dizziness, pulling pain resulting in breathlessness, a slippery tongue coating, and a deep and wiry pulse. It is also indicated for edema all over the body, especially in the lower half of the body, with abdominal distention, panting, and difficult defecation and urination.
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2
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Coptis Toxin-Resolving Decoction
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Coptidis Rhizoma; Scutellariae Radix; Phellodendri Chinensis Cortex; Gardeniae Fructus
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Drains fire and resolves toxins.
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This formula is indicated for fire toxins in the sanjiao. The symptoms are fever, vexation, delirious speech, sleeplessness, dry mouth and throat, dark urine, spitting of blood, nosebleed, rashes, fever with dysentery, jaundice caused by epidemic toxins, rashes, abscesses, ulcers, boils, a red tongue with yellow coating, and a forceful rapid pulse.
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3
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Membrane-Source-Opening Beverage
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Arecae Semen; Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex; Tsaoko Fructus; Anemarrhenae Rhizoma; Paeoniae Radix Alba; Scutellariae Radix; Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma
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Opens and vents the membrane-source, dispels filth and removes turbidity.
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Latent pathogen of pestilence or malaria in the pleurodiaphragmatic interspace (membrane-source). Symptoms are aversion to cold with high fever marked by irregular onset such as one or three times per day, chest oppression, headache, vexation and agitation, wiry and rapid pulse, deep red tongue-edge, putrid and greasy tongue coating, or white, thick tongue coating like accumulated powder.
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4
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Sweet Wormwood and Scutellaria Gallbladder-Clearing Decoction
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Artemisiae Annuae Herba; Bambusae Caulis in Taenias; Pinelliae Rhizoma; Poria; Scutellariae Radix; Aurantii Fructus; Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium; Jasper Jade Powder; Talcum; Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma; Indigo Naturalis
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Clears gallbladder, drains dampness, harmonizes the stomach, and dissolves phlegm.
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Pattern of shaoyang damp-heat marked by alternating chills and fever similar to malaria, more fever than chills, a bitter taste in the mouth, diaphragm oppression, sour and bitter regurgitation, spitting yellow sticky drool, belching, hiccups, distending pain in the chest and rib-side, yellow scanty urine, a red tongue body, a white greasy or white yellow tongue coating, and a rapid, slippery right pulse and a rapid, wiry pulse.
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