Drain Downward: Warm Yang and Purge Accumulation

Question 1

• Indication: Excess cold in the interior
• Sx: Abdominal pain, constipation, hypochondriac pain, chills, low-grade fever, cold extremeties
• Fx: Warm the Yang, dispel cold, unblock bowels and relieve pain
• T: White, greasy coating
• P: Submerged, tight and wiry
• Ingredients:
  Fu Zi 9g
  Da Huang 9g
  Xi Xing 3g

Answer 1

Da Huang Fu Zi Tang

Question 2

• Indication: Spleen Yang/Qi deficiency w/ cold accumulation
• Sx: Abdomnial pain, cold exremities, cosntipation or chronic red/white dysentery acompanied by abdominal pain
• Fx: Warms/tonifies SP Yang, disperses cold, unblocks bowels and relieves pain
• T: White coating
• P: Submerged, wiry
• Ingredients:
  Fu Zi 9g
  Gan Jiang 6g
  Ren Shen 9g
  Gan Cao 3g
  Da Huang 12g

Answer 2

Wen Pi Tang (Warm the Spleen Decoction)

Question 3

• Indication: Excess cold and severe food stagnation accumulation syndrome
• Sx: Sudden epigastric/abdominal pain and distention so intense that it feels “as if an awl is piercing the abdomen,” rough/uneven breathing, cyanotic complexion, no bowel movement, possible (severe) - loss of consciousness with the mouth tightly closed
• Fx: Harshly purges accumulations
• T: Bluish-purple body w/ white coating
• P: Submerged, tight
• Ingredients:
  Ba Dou 30g
  Gan Jiang 30g
  Da Huang 30g

Answer 3

San Wu Bei Ji Wan (Three-Substances Pill for Emergencies)