Inner Formulas SHL

Question 1

Guizhi Tang

In Taiyang disease, with headache and fever, sweating and aversion to wind, Guizhi Tang governs. (SHL13)

When Taiyang has been struck by wind, yang pulses are floating and yin pulses weak. In a floating yang pulse, fever effuses spontaneously; in weak yin pulses, sweat issues spontaneously. If there is huddled aversion to cold, and wetted aversion to wind, feather like heat effusion, noisy nose and dry retching, Guizhi Tang governs. (SHL12)

When patients have no other illnesses, but occasionally have fever, and spontaneous sweating that don’t cure, then this is a disharmony of protective qi, and the promotion of sweating ahead of time will cure, for Guizhi Tang is indicated. (SHL54)

Answer 1

Gui Zhi Tang

Guizhi 9g
Baishao 9g
Shengjiang 9g
Dazao 9g
Zhigancao 6g

Question 2

Gancao Ganjiang Tang

When in cold damage, the pulse is floating and (there is) spontaneous sweating, frequent urination, heart vexation, mild aversion to cold, and hypertonicity of the feet, but Guizhi Tang is given in order to attack the exterior, there is an error. If (the person) is given this formula, there will be reversal, a dryness in the throat, vexation and agitation, and counterflow vomiting, (so one should use) Gancao Ganjiang Tang to restore yang. If a counterflow (patient) recovers, and the feet become warm, one can then use Shaoyao
Gancao Tang and the feet will then (be able to) stretch. If the stomach qi is disharmonious and (there is) delirious speech, give a little Tiaowei Chengqi Tang. If sweating has been promoted repeatedly, and red hot needling was used, Sini Tang governs. (SHL29)

For lung withering and spitting up of slime and foam, without coughing, but the person is not thirsty, there must be incontinence and frequent urination. Why is that? Because the upper is deficient and cannot control the lower, for this is cold in the lung, with
imperative dizziness, and copious slime and saliva, use Gancao Ganjiang Tang to warm. (JG 7)

Answer 2

Gancao Ganjiang Tang

Ganjiang 6g
Zhigancao 12g

Question 3

Lizhong Wan

Question: What of the disease sudden turmoil? Answer: Retching and vomiting and diarrhea is called sudden turmoil. (SHL382)

When in sudden turmoil, (there is) headache, heat effusion, and generalized pain, (if there is) more heat and (the patient) desires to drink water, Wuling San governs, (but if there is) more cold and (the patient) does not drink water, Lizhong Wan governs. (SHL386)

Answer 3

Lizhong Wan

Ganjiang 9g
Renshen 9g
Baizhu 9g
Zhigancao 9g

Question 4

Xiao Qinglong Tang

In cold damage when the surface is not resolving, and under the heart there is water qi, with dry retching, fever and coughing, possibly with thirst, or loose stool, or hiccups, or difficult urination, fullness in the lower abdomen, or with asthmatic breathing, Xiao
Qinglong Tang governs. (SHL 40)

When in cold damage, there is water qi below the heart, cough, mild panting, and heat effusion without thirst; thirst, after taking the decoction, means the cold is going and the disease is about to resolve, Xiao Qinglong Tang governs. (SHL 41)

Answer 4

Xiao Qinglong Tang

Mahuang 9g
Guizhi 9g
Baishao 9g
Xixin 9g
Ganjiang 9g
Wuweizi 12g
Banxia 12g
Zhigancao 9g

Question 5

Guizhi Jia Gui Tang

When sweating was promoted with a burning needle, and the needled location was invaded by cold, there will be a papule that will turn red, for then imperatively running piglet will arise, and qi will surge upward from the lower abdomen striking the heart, for then one should burn one moxa cone on each papule, and Guizhi Jia Gui Tang can be given, which is an extra two liang of Guizhi. (SHL 117)

Answer 5

Guizhi Jia Gui Tang

Guizhi 15g
Baishao 9g
Shengjiang 9g
Dazao 9g
Zhigancao 6g

Question 6

Guizhi Gancao Tang

When too much sweating has been promoted, and the person crosses both hands to cover one’s heart, with palpitations under the heart, and desire to apply pressure, Guizhi Gancao Tang governs. (SHL 64)

Answer 6

Guizhi Gancao Tang

Guizhi 12g
Zhigancao 6g

Question 7

Da Jianzhong Tang

When there is major cold pain in heart and chest, and there is vomiting and the inability to eat, with cold in the abdomen, surging upwards and raising the skin, exiting as if it has head and feet, with pain above and below, unable to touch or approach, then da Jianzhong Tang governs.

Answer 7

Da Jianzhong Tang

Ganjiang 12g
Renshen 6g
Shujiao 6g
Yitang 30g

Question 8

Mahuang Fuzi Xixin Tang

When shaoyin disease has just started, but (there is) heat effusion and the pulse is sunken, Mahuang Xixin Fuzi Tang governs. (SHL301)

Answer 8

Mahuang Fuzi Xixin Tang

Mahuang 6g
Fuzi 6g
Xixin 6g

Question 9

Danggui Sini Tang
When (there is) reversal cold of the limbs and the pulse is fine and verging on expiry, Danggui Sini Tang governs. (SHL351)

Answer 9

Danggui Sini Tang

Danggui 9g
Guizhi 9g
Baishao 9g
Xixin 9g
Tongcao 6g
Dazao 15g
Zhigancao 6g

Question 10

Fuzi Tang

When in lesser yin disease (that has lasted) one or two days, (there is) harmony in the mouth and aversion to cold in the back, (this means that one) should use moxibustion; Fuzi Tang governs. (SHL304)

When in lesser yin disease (there is) generalized pain, cold extremities, joint pain, and pulse that is sunken, Fuzi Tang governs. (SHL305)

Answer 10

Fuzi Tang

Fuzi 12g
Baizhu 12g
Fuling 9g
Baishao 9g
Renshen 6g

Question 11

Sini Tang

When the pulse is floating but slow, and there is fever on the surface but cold in the interior, with downpour of clear and grains, Sini Tang governs. (SHL225)

When in lesser yin disease (there is) counterflow cold of the limbs, aversion to cold, curled up body posture, the pulse fails to arrive (normally) and (there is) agitation without vexation, (this bodes) death. (SHL298)

Answer 11

Sini Tang

Sheng Fuzi 6g
Zhigancao 6g
Ganjiang 4.5g

Question 12

Guizhi Fuzi Tang

For cold damage that has lasted eight or nine days, with a clash of wind and dampness, the body aches vexingly, there is inability to turn [the body] spontaneously, there is no vomiting and no thirst, the pulse is floating deficient and choppy, for Guizhi Fuzi Tang governs. If the person has hard stool, but urination is smooth, eliminating Guizhi and adding Baizhu governs. (SHL 174)

Answer 12

Guizhi Fuzi Tang

Guizhi 12g
Fuzi 15g
Shengjiang 9g
Dazao 6g
Zhigancao 6g

Question 13

Guizhi Jia Fuzi Tang

When in greater yang disease, sweating is promoted and then gives way to incessant leaking, the person is averse to wind, has difficult urination, and the limbs are slightly tensed so that they bend and stretch with difficulty. Guizhi Jia Fuzi Tang governs. (SHL20)

Answer 13

Guizhi Jia Fuzi Tang

Guizhi 9g
Baishao 9g
Zhigancao 9g
Shengjiang 9g
Fuzi 30g

Question 14

Fuzi Xiexin Tang

When (there is) a glomus below the heart, yet also aversion to cold and sweating, Fuzi Xiexin Tang governs. (SHL155)

Answer 14

Fuzi Xiexin Tang

Dahuang 6g
Huanglian 3g
Huangqin 3g
Fuzi 6g

Question 15

Xuanfu Daizhe Tang

If in Cold Damage sweating is promoted, if [then] vomiting [is promoted], or if purged, after resolution, there will be hard glomus under the heart, and incessant hiccups, then Xuanfu Daizhe Tang governs. (SHL161)

Answer 15

Xuanfu Daizhe Tang

Xuanfuhua 9g
Daizheshi 3g
Banxia 12g
Shengjiang 15g
Renshen 6g
Dazao 6g
Zhigancao 9g

Question 16

Muli Zexie San

After great illness has resolved, if there is water qi below the waist, then Muli Zexie San governs. (SHL 395)

Answer 16

Muli Zexie San

Muli 9g
Zexie 9g
Haizao 9g
Gualougen 9g
Tinglizi 9g
Shanglugen 9g
Shuqi 9g

Question 17

Guizhi Jia Houpo Xingren Tang

When in Taiyang disease, there is mild panting following precipitation, it means that the exterior has not resolved; therefore, Guizhi jia Houpo Xingzi Tang governs. (SHL 43)

Answer 17

Guizhi Jia Houpo Xingren Tang

Guizhi 9g
Baishao 9g
Shengjiang 9g
Dazao 6g
Zhigancao 6g
Houpo 6g
Xingren 9g

Question 18

Zhishi Xiebai Guizhi Tang

When there is chest obstruction and glomus in the heart, there is residing qi congested in the chest, with chest fullness, and rebellion under the ribs poking at the heart, Zhishi Xiebai Guizhi Tang governs; Renshen Tang also governs.

Answer 18

Zhishi Xiebai Guizhi Tang

Zhishi 3g
Xiebai 24g
Guizhi 3g
Gualou 15g
Houpo 12g

Question 19

Da Xianxiong Tang

When in cold damage that has lasted for six or seven days, there is chest bind heat repletion, in which the pulse is sunken and tight and there is pain below the heart, which is stone-hard when pressure is applied, Da Xianxiong Tang governs. (SHL 135)

Answer 19

Da Xianxiong Tang

Dahuang 18g
Mangxiao 24g
Gansui 1.5g

Question 20

Taohe Chengqi Tang
When a greater yang disease is unresolved and heat binds in the bladder, the person is as if manic, and spontaneous blood descent will bring recovery. If the exterior has not been resolved, (one should) not yet attack, (but) should first resolve the exterior. When the exterior has been resolved and (there is) only tense bound lesser abdomen, (one) can attack and (therefore) Taohe Chengqi Tang is appropriate. (SHL106)

Answer 20

Taohe Chengqi Tang

Taoren 9g
Dahuang 12g
Guizhi 6g
Mangxiao 6g
Zhigancao 6g

Question 21

Chaihu Jia Mangxiao Tang

(Here, in) cold damage (the disease) has not resolved in thirteen days, (and there is) fullness in the chest and rib-side, retching, late afternoon tidal heat effusion, and shortly afterward mild diarrhea. This was originally a (Da) Chaihu Tang pattern in which precipitation should not cause diarrhea, yet now (in the present case there is) diarrhea, so (one) knows a pill medicine was used to precipitate, and this is not the (appropriate) treatment. Tidal heat effusion means repletion. It is appropriate to first take Xiao Chaihu Tang in order to resolve the external (aspect). Afterwards, Chaihu Jia Mangxiao Tang
governs. (SHL104)

Answer 21

Chaihu Jia Mangxiao Tang

Chaihu 24g
Huangqin 9g
Renshen 9g
Zhigancao 9g
Shengjiang 9g
Banxia 9g
Dazao 9g
Mangxiao 18g

Question 22

Xiao Chengqi Tang

In Yangming disease, the pulse is slow, and regardless of the sweating there is no aversion to cold, so the body must imperatively be heavy, and there is shortness of breath, with abdominal fullness and panting, along with tidal fever, for this means that the external pattern is about to resolve, and the interior can be purged… If the abdomen is greatly full and constipated, one can give Xiao Chengqi Tang, to mildly harmonize stomach qi, but do not allow any great precipitation. (SHL 208)

Answer 22

Xiao Chengqi Tang

Dahuang 12g
Houpo 6g
Zhishi 3g

Question 23

Guizhi Jia Dahuang Tang

When originally there was greater yang disease, but the physician used precipitation, and consequently (there is) abdominal fullness with periodic pain, this belongs to greater yin (disease); Guizhi Jia Shaoyao Tang governs. If (there is) great repletion pain, Guizhi Jia
Dahuang Tang governs. (SHL 279)

Answer 23

Guizhi Jia Dahuang Tang

Guizhi 9g
Baishao 18g
Dahuang 6g
Zhigancao 6g
Dazao 9g
Shengjiang 9g

Question 24

Didang Tang

In Taiyang disease that has lasted six to seven days, the surface pattern is still present, the pulse is faint and deep, but there is no chest bind, and the person is as if mad, for this is heat in the lower burner, and there must be hard fullness in the lower abdomen, for the person whose urination is smooth, there must be downpour of blood which indicates curation. Why is this, for taiyang follows the channel, and stasis heat is in the interior, so Didang Tang governs. (SHL 124)

In Taiyang disease, when the body is yellow, pulse is deep and knotted, the lower abdomen is hard, and urination is unsmooth, this indicates that there is no blood; when urination is smooth, and the person is as if mad, this is truly a blood pattern, and Didang
Tang governs. (SHL 125)

When in Yangming disease the person is forgetful, there will be blood amassment. Why this is so is because originally there was enduring blood amassment, thus causing forgetfulness and stool, that although hard, is nevertheless easy to pass, and that will be
black in color. It is appropriate to precipitate with Didang Tang. (SHL 237)

Answer 24

Didang Tang

Jiu Dahuang 9g
Taoren 3g
Shuizhi 9g
Mangchong 9g (substitute with Dibiechong)

Question 25

Da Xianxiong Wan

When the disease occurs at yang, but is adversely purged, the heat enters and causes chest bind… For in chest bind, there also is neck rigidity, like a soft convulsion, for when purged it will be peaceful, and Da Xianxiong Wan is indicated. (SHL 131)

Answer 25

Da Xianxiong Wan

Dahuang 12g
Mangxiao 6g
Xingren 6g
Tinglizi 6g

Question 26

Guizhi Renshen Tang

In Taiyang disease, the external pattern has not yet resolved, and purging has been used repeatedly, consequently heat was purged down strongly, which resulted in incessant downpour and diarrhea, a hard glomus below the heart, for exterior and interior both did
not resolve, and Guizhi Renshen Tang governs. (SHL163)

Answer 26

Guizhi Renshen Tang

Guizhi 12g
Zhigancao 12g
Ganjiang 9g
Renshen 9g
Baizhu 9g

Question 27

Baihu Jia Renshen Tang

When taking Guizhi Tang, after there is copious sweating, there is great and incessant vexing thirst, and a flooding big pulse, Baihu Jia Renshen Tang governs. (SHL26)

In Cold Damage, if after vomiting or purging, after seven or eight days there is no resolution, then the heat must congest in the interior, for there is occasional aversion to wind, great thirst, and dryness on the tongue with vexation, and the desire to drink
multiple liters of water, Baihu Jia Renshen Tang governs. (SHL168)

Answer 27

Baihu Jia Renshen Tang

Shigao 48g
Zhimu 18g
Gengmi 12g
Zhigancao 6g
Renshen 9g

Question 28

Sini Jia Renshen Tang

When (there is) aversion to cold and a pulse that is faint, then diarrhea, when the diarrhea stops it is the death of blood, Sini Jia Renshen Tang governs. (SHL385)

Answer 28

Sini Jia Renshen Tang

Sheng Fuzi 6g
Zhigancao 6g
Ganjiang 4.5g
Renshen 3g

Question 29

Guizhi Jia Shaoyao Shengjiang Ge Yi Liang Renshen San Liang Xinjia Tang

When after the promotion of sweating, there is generalized pain, and a pulse that is sunken and slow. Guizhi Jia Shaoyao Shengjiang Ge Yi Liang Renshen San Liang Xin Jia Tang governs. (SHL 62)

Answer 29

Guizhi Jia Shaoyao Shengjiang Ge Yi Liang Renshen San Liang Xinjia Tang

Guizhi 9g
Baishao 12g
Shengjiang 12g
Dazao 6g
Zhigancao 6g
Renshen 9g

Wuzhuyu Tang (see Wuzhuyu)
Da Jianzhong Tang (see Shujiao)
Lizhong Wan (see Ganjiang)

Question 30

Zhigancao Tang

For cold damage with a pulse that is bound and intermittent, and stirring heart palpitations, Zhigancao Tang governs. (SHL 177)

Answer 30

Zhigancao Tang

Zhigancao 12g
Shengdihuang 48g
Guizhi 9g
Shengjiang 9g
Dazao 18g
Maimendong 12g
Ejiao 6g
Renshen 6g
Huomaren 12g

Question 31

Wuling San

In Taiyang disease, after sweating was promoted, there is copious sweating, and the stomach is dry, so there is restlessness and agitation with inability to attain sleep, when one desires to drink water, give small amounts, allowing the stomach to be harmonious
and so there will be curation. If the pulse is floating, and inhibited urination, with mild fever and consumptive thirst, then Wuling San governs. (SHL71)

After sweat promotion, the pulse is floating and rapid, and there is vexing thirst, Wuling San governs. (SHL72)

In Wind Strike with fever, which after six or seven days does not resolve and is accompanied by vexation, then there is an exterior-interior pattern, for there is thirst with desire to drink, but when water enters the mouth, there is vomiting, for this is called Water reversal, and Wuling San governs. (SHL74)

When in sudden turmoil, (there is) headache, heat effusion, and generalized pain, (if there is) more heat and (the patient) desires to drink water, Wuling San governs; (but if there is) more cold and (the patient) does not drink water, Lizhong Wan governs. (SHL386)

If a person is thin and has pulsations below the umbilicus, with spitting of foamy saliva and vertigo, [then] this is water, [and] Wuling San governs. (JG12)

Answer 31

Wuling San

Guizhi 6g
Baizhu 9g
Fuling 9g
Zhuling 9g
Zexie 15g

Question 32

Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang

When in cold damage, after vomiting or precipitation, there is counterflow fullness below the heart, the qi surges upward to the chest, the person experiences dizzy head upon standing, and the pulse is sunken and tight, if sweating is promoted, the channels will be stirred and there will be quivering and trembling then Fuling Guizhi Baizhu Gancao Tang governs. (SHL 67)

When there is phlegm rheum below the heart, there is poking fullness in chest and ribs, and dizzy vision, then Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang governs. (JG12)

In shortness of breath with mild rheum, it should be expelled through urination, and Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang governs; Shenqi Wan also governs. (JG12)

Answer 32

Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang

Fuling 12g
Guizhi 9g
Baizhu 6g
Zhigancao 6g

Question 33

Fuling Gancao Tang

In Cold Damage, with sweating and thirst, Wuling San governs. If no thirst, then Fuling Gancao Tang governs. (SHL73)

When in cold damage there is reversal and palpitations below the heart, it is appropriate to first treat the water. One should take Fuling Gancao Tang which will then treat reversal. If not treated in that way, the water will soak into the stomach and there will be diarrhea.
(SHL 356)

Answer 33

Fuling Gancao Tang

Fuling 6g
Guizhi 6g
Shengjiang 9g
Zhigancao 3g

Question 34

Ling Gui Cao Zao Tang

After sweating, the person has a probing palpitation under the umbilicus, for there is a tendency to have running piglet, so Fuling Guizhi Gancao Dazao Tang governs. (SHL 65)

Answer 34

Ling Gui Cao Zao Tang

Fuling 24g
Guizhi 12g
Zhigancao 6g
Dazao 12g

Question 35

Fuling Sini Tang

After sweating, if purged, and the disease still has not resolved, there is vexing restlessness, for Fuling Sini Tang governs. (SHL 69)

Answer 35

Fuling Sini Tang

Fuling 12g
Fuzi (raw) 6g
Zhigancao 6g
Ganjiang 4.5g
Renshen 3g

Question 36

Gancao Tang

In shaoyin disease that has lasted two or three days, for throat ache, one can give Gancao Tang; if it doesn’t resolve, then give Jiegeng Tang.

Answer 36

Gancao Tang

Gancao 6g

Question 37

Shaoyao Gancao Tang
…if there is still slight hypertonicity of the lower legs, give a large dose of Shaoyao Gancao Tang, so that the lower legs will be able to extend. (SHL30)

Answer 37

Shaoyao Gancao Tang

Baishao 12g
Zhigancao 12g

Question 38

Gancao Xiexin Tang

(When) in cold damage (or) wind strike, the physician has used precipitation, the person (will have) diarrhea about ten times per day (containing) food that has not been transformed, (with) thunderous rumbling in the abdomen, fullness and a hard glomus below the heart, dry retching, and vexation that cannot be quieted. (When) the physician sees a glomus below the heart, suggesting the illness has not finished, and again uses precipitation, (yet as a result) the glomus increases in severity, (it is because) heat bind is absent; only stomach vacuity (is present) with counterflow ascent of visiting qi, causing hardness; (therefore), Gancao Xiexin Tang governs. (SHL158)

Answer 38

Gancao Xiexin Tang

Zhigancao 12g
Banxia 12g
Huangqin 9g
Huanglian 3g
Ganjiang 9g
Renshen 9g
Dazao 9g

Ling Gui Cao Zao Tang (see Fuling)
Fuling Gancao Tang (see Fuling)

Question 39

Danggui Sini Tang

When (there is) reversal cold of the limbs and the pulse is fine and verging on expiry, Danggui Sini Tang governs. (SHL351)

Answer 39

Danggui Sini Tang

Danggui 9g
Guizhi 9g
Baishao 9g
Xixin 9g
Tongcao 6g
Dazao 15g
Zhigancao 6g
Zhigancao Tang (see Zhigancao, Maimendong)

Question 40

Gui Ling Wuwei Gancao Tang

After Xiao Qinglong Tang has gone down, and there is abundant spit with dryness in the mouth, a deep cun pulse, and a faint chi pulse, with reversal cold of hands and feet, qi surges upward from the lower abdomen to the chest and throat, with obstruction of hands
and feet, and a face that is flushed red as if one were drunk, and because it consecutively will flow downward into the groin, [causing] difficult urination, with at times again dizziness; give Fuling Guizhi Wuwei Gancao Tang, to treat the qi surging.

Answer 40

Gui Ling Wuwei Gancao Tang

Guizhi 12g
Fuling 12g
Wuweizi 12g
Zhigancao 9g

Ling Gan Wuwei Jiang Xin Tang (see Xixin)

Question 41

Sini San

When in lesser yin disease (there is) counterflow cold of the limbs, the person may cough, or have palpitations, or inhibited urination, or pain in the abdomen, or diarrhea with rectal heaviness, Sini San governs. (SHL318)

Answer 41

Sini Sa

Chaihu 12g
Baishao 12g
Zhishi 12g
Zhigancao 12gn

Question 42

Zhizi Chi Tang

After sweating, vomiting or purging, there is deficiency vexation and inability to attain sleep; if it gets worse, then there will be continuous tossing and turning, with anguish in the heart, and Zhizi Chi Tang governs; if there is shortness of breath, Zhizi Gancao Chi Tang governs. If there is retching, Zhizi Shengjiang Chi Tang governs. (SHL76)

Answer 42

Zhizi Chi Tang

Zhizi 15g
Douchi 9g

Question 43

Guizhi Jia Shaoyao Tang

When originally there was greater yang disease, but the physician used precipitation, and consequently (there is) abdominal fullness with periodic pain, this belongs to greater yin (disease); Guizhi Jia Shaoyao Tang governs. If (there is) great repletion pain, Guizhi Jia
Dahuang Tang governs. (SHL279)

Answer 43

Guizhi Jia Shaoyao Tang

Guizhi 9g
Baishao 18g
Shengjiang 9g
Dazao 9g
Zhigancao 6g

Question 44

Xiao Jianzhong Tang

In cold damage, the yang pulse is choppy and the yin pulse is wiry, there generally is urgent pain in the abdomen, first give Xiao Jianzhong Tang; if not cured, then give Xiao Chaihu Tang. (SHL 100)

After two or three days of cold damage, there is palpitation in the heart with vexation, Xiao Jianzhong Tang governs. (SHL 102)

For taxation deficiency with internal tightness, palpitations, bleeding, pain in the abdomen, nocturnal emissions, cramping pains in the extremities, vexing heat in the hands and feet, dry throat and parched mouth, Xiao Jianzhong Tang governs. (JG 6)

Answer 44

Xiao Jianzhong Tang

Guizhi 9g
Baishao 18g
Shengjiang 9g
Dazao 6g
Yitang 30g
Zhigancao 6g

Question 45

Huangqin Tang

When in greater yang and lesser yang combination disease (there is) spontaneous diarrhea, give Huangqin Tang; if (there is) retching, Huangqin Jia Banxia Shengjiang Tang governs. (SHL172)

Answer 45

Huangqin Tang

Huangqin 9g
Baishao 6g
Dazao 9g
Zhigancao 6g

Question 46

Xiao Chaihu Tang

In Cold Damage of five or six days, there is wind strike, coming and going of hot and cold, uncomfortable fullness of chest and ribs, muted lack of desire for drink and food, mental vexation and desire to vomit, possibly thirst, possibly pain in the abdomen, possibly hard glomus under the ribs, possibly pulsations under the heart, or lack of thirst, mild fever all over the body, or with coughing, Xiao Chaihu Tang governs. (SHL96)

Answer 46

Xiao Chaihu Tang

Chaihu 24g
Huangqin 9g
Banxia 12g
Shengjiang 9g
Renshen 9g
Dazao 9g
Zhigancao 9g

Question 47

Gegen Huangqin Huanglian Tang

In a taiyang disease Guizhi pattern, when the doctor adversely purges, [this causes] incessant diarrhea. The pulse is hasty, and the surface has not yet resolved, for there is panting with sweating, Gegen Huangqin Huanglian Tang governs. (SHL34)

Answer 47

Gegen Huangqin Huanglian Tang

Gegen 24g
Huangqin 9g
Huanglian 9g
Zhigancao 6g

Question 48

Huanglian Tang

In cold damage, there is heat in the chest, and evils in the stomach, with abdominal pain, and desire to vomit, [and so] Huanglian Tang governs. (SHL 173)

Answer 48

Huanglian Tang

Huanglian 9g
Guizhi 9g
Banxia 12g
Ganjiang 9g
Renshen 6g
Dazao 9g
Zhigancao 9g

Question 49

Huanglian Ejiao Tang

When in lesser yin disease (that has lasted) more than tow or three days, (there is) vexation in the heart and inability to sleep, Huanglian Ejiao Tang governs. (SHL303)

Answer 49

Huanglian Ejiao Tang

Huanglian 12g
Huangqin 6g
Baishao 6g
Jizihuang (Egg yolk) 2 yolks
Ejiao 9g

Question 50

Dahuang Huanglian Xiexin Tang

When there is a glomus below the heart that is soft when pressure is applied, and the pulse is floating on the guan, Dahuang Huanglian Xiexin Tang governs. (SHL 154)

Answer 50

Dahuang Huanglian Xiexin Tang

Dahuang 6g
Huanglian 3g

Question 51

Baitouweng Tang

When (there is) heat diarrhea with rectal heaviness, Baitouweng Tang governs. (SHL371)

When (there is) diarrhea with a desire to drink water, this means that (there is) heat; (therefore) Baitouweng Tang governs. (SHL373)

Answer 51

Baitouweng Tang

Baitouweng 6g
Huangbai 9g
Huanglian 9g
Qinpi 9g

Question 52

Zhuye Shigao Tang

After resolution of cold damage, (when there is) vacuity and marked emaciation, shortage of qi, and qi counterflow with a desire to vomit, Zhuye Shigao Tang governs. (SHL397)

Answer 52

Zhuye Shigao Tang

Zhuye 24g
Shigao 48g
Maimendong 24g
Banxia 12g
Gengmi 12g
Renshen 6g
Zhigancao 6g