bubble_chart Composition Areca nut 6 gm, Magnolia bark 3 gm, Amomum fruit 1.5 gm, Anemarrhena rhizome 3 gm, Peony root 3 gm, Scutellaria root 3 gm, Licorice root 1.5 gm.
bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage
Boil 200 ml of water until it reduces to 160 ml. Administer while warm in the afternoon.
bubble_chart Efficacy
Opening onto pleurodiaphragmatic interspace, repelling foulness and resolving turbidity.
bubble_chart Indications
At the onset of pestilence, the monk experiences chills and fever, which gradually progress to fever without chills, persisting day and night, and worsening in the late afternoon. Symptoms include headache, body pain, a rapid pulse, a red tongue, and a thick white coating resembling accumulated powder. It is currently used for malaria, dampness obstruction due to digestive tract parasites, and heat retention caused by dampness blockage, as well as certain heat-related sexually transmitted diseases.
bubble_chart Formula Modification
Hypochondriac pain, deafness, alternating chills and fever, vomiting with a bitter taste in the mouth, add Bupleurum 3 grams; back and neck pain, add Notopterygium 3 grams; eye pain, orbital pain, dry nose, and insomnia, add dried kudzu 3 grams.