[Efficacy]

It calms the liver and relieves depression, clears away heat and calms the nerves.

[Indications]

Liver meridian heat reversal, dizziness, distending pain, chest tightness, qi depression, irritability, heat, thirst, or sudden spasm, twitching eyes, hot body and cold feet, or vomiting.

The classics say: "No wind, no dizziness", "No liver, no dizziness", the liver is being firm-characterized zang organ, the body is yin but uses yang, liver yin is insufficient, liver yang is overactive, and wind is causing disturbance, then it is vertigo. The formula Uncaria soothes the liver and clears away heat, Chrysanthemum Flower is sweet, slightly cold and slightly bitter, light and floating, pacifying liver and extinguishing wind to help Uncaria It has the power to soothe the liver; Saposhnikovia Root is pungent, warm and moist, helping dispelling wind; gypsum is pungent and cold, clearing heat and purging fire; liver wind is often easily suppressed phlegm, Dried Tangerine Peel, Pineilia are used together with invigorating spleen and drying dampness resolving phlegm, the source of phlegm; Ophiopogon Tuber enriching yin to tranquilize spirit; Poria with Pine tranquilizing the mind; Ginseng, Poria tonifying qi and invigorating spleen resolving dampness; Fresh Ginger Rhizome and Liquorice Root regulate the spleen and stomach, which together calm the liver, clear away heat and calm the nerves.

1. Liver yang is overactive.
2. vertigo headache.
3. Irritability, heat, and thirst.
4. Pulse is stringy and strong.

[Addition and subtraction]

1. Liver yang is excessive (high blood pressure): add Gastrodia Tuber, Twotooth Achyranthes Root, Abalone Shell , Skullcap Root, Gardenia.
2. If phlegm is more turbid: add Gastrodia Tuber, White Atractylodes Rhizome, Alisma.
3. For severe headache: add Sichuan Lovage Rhizome, Pueraria, Chinese Lovage.

[Attention to taboos]

Smoking, alcohol and fluid retention are prohibited and food should be light.

[Modern application]

Hypertension, migraine, neurosis, Meniere's syndrome, scapular aching pain, menopausal syndrome, stirred pulse sclerosis.