bubble_chart Efficacy

Dispersing external wind, clearing heat to stop pain.

bubble_chart Indications

External contraction wind-cold headache. Symptoms include persistent headache, pain that may be one-sided or central, pain at the vertex, aversion to cold with fever, nasal congestion with profuse phlegm, dizziness, blurred vision, tearing when exposed to wind, clear nasal discharge, thin white tongue coating, and floating pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

In the formula, Sichuan Lovage Rhizome serves as the monarch herb, effective in treating headaches of the Shaoyang and Jueyin meridians; Notopterygium is effective for headaches of the Great Yang meridian; Dahurian Angelica is effective for headaches of the Yangming meridian; Asarum, Mentha, Schizonepeta, and Saposhnikovia Root are pungent and can ascend, dispersing wind pathogens from the head. Mentha paired with tea leaf, being cool and cold in nature, clears and benefits the head and eyes, clearing the upper and descending the lower; Liquorice Root harmonizes all the herbs. It has a good therapeutic effect on somnolence caused by insufficient oxygen and blood supply to the head.

bubble_chart Syndrome Differentiation

1. external contraction with migraine.
2. fever and chills.
3. dizziness and nasal congestion.
4. tongue coating thin and white.
5. floating pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

1. Wind-heat headache: add Chrysanthemum Flower, Mulberry Leaf, Stiff Silkworm.
2. Wind-cold headache: add Fresh Ginger Rhizome, cultivated purple perilla leaf.
3. Dizziness: add Gastrodia Tuber, Chinese Lovage.
4. Chronic nasal disease: add Magnolia, Cocklebur Fruit.
5. Nervous headache: add Chastetree Fruit, Puncturevine Caltrop Fruit.
6. Dizziness due to overthinking: combine with Peripatetic Powder.
7. Wind-cold dizziness: combine with Jade Screen Powder.

Treatment of influenza, enterovirus, and various viral colds, Chinese medicine is more refined, non-toxic, and effective than Western medicine

bubble_chart Modern Application

This formula provides analgesic, sedative, anti-inflammatory, and antipyretic effects, and enhances the body's (especially the brain's) tolerance to hypoxia. It is used for common cold, migraine, allergic rhinitis, sinusitis, dizziness, nasal congestion, excessive phlegm, and somnolence.