WH Acupuncture & Herbs Centre

SOURCE: prescription of Peaceful Benevolent Dispensary

INGREDIENTS:

Ginseng 6g Chines angelica root 9g Bighead atractylodes rhizome 12g Nutmeg 12g Cinnamon Bark 3g Roasted licorice root 6g White peony root 25g Aucklandia root 9g Myrobalan fruit 12g Poppy capsule(honey-parched) 6g

DIRECTIONS: Grind the above herbs as a portion and decoct it with water, and ministration. Wine, wheat food, cold and raw, fishy, greasy and spicy food hibited during treatment. Or decoct them in water in reduced dosage with ents of same porportion as the original formula for oral administration.

EFFECTS: Warming and tonifying the spleen and kidney, consolidating the intestine to cease diarrhea.

INDICATIONS: Chronic diarrhea or chronic dysentery due to deficiency cold of the spleen and kidney marked by incontinence of the feces due to loose bowel, abdominal pain that may be relieved by warmth or pressure, dysentery, or passing stool with blood and pus, tenesmus, pain around the navel, poor appetite, pale tongue, with white tongue coating, and slow and thready pulse.   

ANALYSIS OF FORMULA: Poppy capsule used in large dosage consolidates the intestines to cease diarrhea, Connamon bark warms the spleen and kidney, Both are principal herbs. As assistant herbs, myrobalan fruit and nutmeg warm the kidney and spleen, consolidate the intestine to cease diarrhea, ginseng and bighead atractylodes rhizome invigorate qi and strengthen the spleen. Chinese angeli­ca root and white peony nourish the blood and harmonize yin, aucklandia root a- wakens the spleen and regulates qi. These are adjuvant herbs. Roasted licorice in­vigorates the spleen and harmonizes the middle. Combined with white peony, it can relieve spasm to relieve pain as dispatcher herb.

 Chronic enteritis, intestinal tuberculosis, chronic dysentery pertaining to defi­ciency cold of the spleen and kidney can be treated by this formula.