[Efficacy]

Promotes sweating, removes dampness, and clears interior heat.

[Indications]

external contraction cold syndrome/pattern of exogenous pathogenic dampness. Symptoms include aversion to cold with fever, headache without sweating, soreness and pain in limbs, bitter taste in mouth and thirst, white and thin tongue coating, and floating and tight pulse.

The syndrome of this prescription is caused by external contraction, wind, cold-dampness, invasion of the skin surface, and accumulation of heat inside. In the prescription, Notopterygium is hard and warm, inducing sweating to releasing exterior, dispelling wind, dehumidifying, relieving pain and relieving pain; Saposhnikovia Root, Atractylodes Rhizome Helps sovereign medicinal and strengthens the power of sweating and removing dampness; Asarum, Sichuan Lovage Rhizome, Dahurian Angelica, Xuansan wind-cold , clearing blood, removing headache and body aches; Skullcap Root, Unprocessed Rehmannia Root clearing and purging internal heat, can control the dryness of pungent and warm medicines, To prevent damage to fluid, they are both assistant medicinal; Liquorice Root It is used to harmonize various medicines.

1. aversion to cold with fever.
2. Aching pain in limbs.
3. bitter taste in mouth.
4. The coating is white and thin.
5. The pulse is floating and tight.

[Addition and subtraction]

1. Wet heavy breasts: add Magnolia Bark, Submature Bitter Orange, Fortune Eupatorium.
2. Cough and asthma: Add Bitter Apricot Seed, Aster, Coltsfoot Flower.
3. interior heat: add Coptis Rhizome, Anemarrhena.
4. Severe headache: add Chastetree Fruit, Chinese Lovage.
5. Aversion to cold and high fever: Add Cinnamon Twig and Bupleurum.
6. It's easy to do both: add Rhubarb Rhizoma.
7. For severe heat: add gypsum and Anemarrhena.
8. Exterior heat: Add Yinhua, Forsythia.

[Attention to taboos]

Yin deficiency is prohibited for those with weak Qi.

[Modern application]

common cold, epidemic common cold, acute measles, wind-dampness arthritis.