Prescriptions for Warming the Middle-Jiao to Dispel Pathogenic Cold
Wu Zhu Yu Tang (吴茱萸汤): Classic TCM Formula
Name
Decoction of Root of Medicinal Evodia
The Prescription of 吴茱萸汤
Source
The book Shang Han Lun
Ingredients
Wu Zhu Yu (Fructus Euodiae) 3 g,Ren Shen (Radix Ginseng) 6 g,Da Zao (Fructus Jujubae) 4 dates,Sheng Jiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens) 18 g.Explanation
Wu Zhu Yu: The principal drug, being pungent and bitter in flavor and heat in nature, warming the stomach to disperse cold, removing stagnated food, descending Qi to lower the turbid.
Ren Shen: Invigorating primodial Qi and benifiting Yin.
Sheng Jiang: Warming the stomach to purge cold.
Da Zao: Replenishing Qi and nourishing the spleen, working together with Sheng Jiang to regulate Ying and Wei.
The Effect of 吴茱萸汤
Effect
Warming the middle-Jiao to tonify the spleen and stomach, keeping the adverse flow of the stomach-Qi going down to stop vomiting.
Indications
Syndrome due to deficiency-cold in the stomach, marked by nausea after meal, fullness in the chest and gastric region, gastric pain, gastric discomfort with acid regurgitation, or due to Jueyin disease marked by headache and vomiting with foams, or due to Shaoyin disease marked by vomiting and diarrhea; including such diseases with the above symptoms as chronic gastritis, nervous headache, vomiting in pregnancy, gastrointestinal neurosis, Meniere’s disease, drug anaphylactic vomiting, etc.
Administrations
Decocted in water for oral dose to be taken 3 times.
Sources and further reading
We cite classical materia medica and modern reference works. This article is health education, not medical advice.
- Shennong Bencao Jing (The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica), Han dynasty.
- Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica), Li Shizhen, 1578.
- Chinese Pharmacopoeia, current edition — identity, quality and safety monographs.
- NCCIH and WHO reference material on traditional medicine safety.
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