[Efficacy]

releasing exterior dehumidifies, regulates qi and neutralizes qi.

external contraction internal cold internal damage Dietary dampness syndrome. Fever aversion to cold, headache, chest and diaphragm fullness and tightness, epigastric and abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, bowel sounds, diarrhea, white and greasy tongue coating, slippery pulse.

[Prescription]

This prescription is based on Two Old Ingredients Decoction, and is composed of products that relieve external evils and regulate the spleen and stomach. It is suitable for external contraction, wind and cold, internal damage and is commonly used for syndromes of dietary dampness. Formula is most suitable for people with common cold in all seasons, especially those who feel cold and dampness damage in summer and have imbalances in the spleen and stomach. Patchouli is used as the king in the prescription. It is used to disperse wind-cold, aromatic herbs resolving dampness, and both ascending lucidity and descending turbidity. It is good at treating cholera; I use Cultivated Purple Perilla Leaf, Dahurian Angelica Spicy fragrance helps Patchouli to resolve wind-cold, and aromatic herbs can resolving dampness; Pineilia, Dried Tangerine Peel pungent and fragrant herbs fortifying the stomach, downbearing counterflow to stop vomiting; White Atractylodes Rhizome, Poria invigorating the spleen and transporting dampness, harmonizing and stopping diarrhea; Magnolia Bark, abdominal skin moving qi and resolving dampness, smoothing the middle and removing fullness; combined with Platycodon Root ventilating lung to relieve the diaphragm, which is beneficial to both releasing the exterior and resolving dampness ; Fresh Ginger Rhizome, Chinese Date, Liquorice Root regulates the spleen and stomach, and works together with medicinal property. The combination of all the medicines makes the wind-cold disperse externally, dampness turbidity internalize, clearness rises and turbidity falls, qi movement becomes unobstructed, and all symptoms are eliminated.

1. Feeling common cold, wind-cold fettering exterior, and dampness in the spleen and stomach during the summer months or four seasons.
2. Hanre headache, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea.
3. tongue coating is white and greasy.

[Addition and subtraction]

1. Exterior pathogen: Add Chinese Mosla.
2. If there is too much moisture inside: add Coix Seed, Alisma, Magnolia Bark, Atractylodes Rhizome > .
3. Anorexia due to food stagnation: add hawthorn fruit, Medicated Leaven, radish seed.
4. without sweating aversion to wind: Add Saposhnikovia Root, Schizonepeta, Ephedra.
5. Sore throat: Add Yinhua, Forsythia.
6. Abdominal pain: Add Peony Root.
7. Abdominal pain and diarrhea: add Atractylodes Rhizome and Coptis Rhizome.
8. Hanshen: Add Aconite Lateral Root and Dried Ginger.
9. thirst diarrhea, difficulty in urination: combined Five Ingredients with Poria Powder.

[Attention to taboos]

This medicine has a spicy and warm dryness, so people with yin deficiency and blood deficiency should use it with caution.

[Modern application]

This prescription strengthens the stomach, relieves vomiting, relieves gastrointestinal smooth muscle spasm, adjusts gastrointestinal function, is antibacterial, inhibits influenza virus, antipyretic, diuretic, and dispelling phlegm. It is used for gastrointestinal common cold, acute gastroenteritis, summer heat stroke, vomiting, acute and chronic nephritis, cholera vomiting and diarrhea, incompatibility with water and soil, and food injuries in children.