Chapter 17, Nausea, Vomit and Diarrhea

If the person who has nausea and pus/abscess, you should not try to solve the nausea but to solve the pus or the abscess. After clearance of the pus, the nausea will stop.

If the person has nausea first, then feels thirsty, it suggests the release of the disease. If he has thirsty then nausea, it suggests the presence of Water in the upper abdomen, the drinking of water causes the nausea. It belongs to a Water-accumulation condition (not means the Water disease).

呕家本渴，今反不渴者，以心下有支饮故也，此属支饮。(小半夏汤主之。)

If the person has nausea, he should have thirsty, but actually he hasn’t. This condition belongs to Branch-Water condition. Use Xiao Banxia Tang.

呕吐而病在膈上，后思水者解，急与之，思水者，猪苓散主之。

If the person has nausea and the disease is above the diagram, he feels thirsty and wants to drink water, this suggests his condition is to solve. If he still has nausea, it suggests he still has Water-accumulation condition in the body. Use Zhuling San.[1]

Chaihu 90 gram, Huangqin 45 gram, Renshen 45 gram, Banxia (washed) 124 gram, Gancao (processed) 45 gram, Fresh ginger 45 gram, Chinese date 62 gram.

右七味，以水一斗二升，煮取六升，去滓，再煎取三升，温服一升，日三服。

Add the herbs and 3000 ml water into a herbal pot. Bring to boil and keep in mild boiling until there is 1500 ml liquid in the pot left. Remove the herbal residue, continue the cook until there is about 750 ml left. Collect the herbal tea. Drink one third of the tea each time, three times a day.

呕而脉弱，小便复利，身有微热，见厥者难治，四逆汤主之。

Nausea with weak pulse[3], the urine starts smooth and more[4], the body has mild hot[5], use Sini Tang. If there is reverse cold in the hands and feet, it is difficult to treat.

Gancao (processed) 30 gram, Ganjiang 23 gram, Fuzi (not cooked, remove skin) 45 gram.

右三味，以水三升，煮取一升二合，去滓，分温再服。强人可大附子枚，干姜三两。

Add the herbs and 750 ml water into a herbal pot. Bring to boil until there is 300 ml liquid left in the pot. Collect the herbal tea, separate into several parts. Drink one part each time. Repeat every 2 to 3 hours. If the body is strong or is big in size, use Fuzi of big size, and use 45 gram of Ganjiang.

Add the herbs and 1750 ml water into a herbal pot. Bring to boil and keep in mild boiling until there is 500 ml liquid left. Drink one third of the herbal tea each time, three times a day.

If the person has nausea, big noise in the intestine[7], fullness in the upper abdomen[8], use Banxia Xiexin Tang[9]

Banxia (washed) 124 gram, Huangqin 45 gram, Ganjiang 45 gram, Renshen 45 gram, Huanglian 15 gram, Gancao (Processed) 45 gram, Chinese Date 62 gram.

右七味，以水一斗，煮取六升，去滓，再煮取三升，温服一升，日三服。

Add the herbs and 2500 ml water into a herbal pot. Bring to boil and keep in mild boiling until the liquid volume in the pot is about 1500 ml. Remove the herbal residue, continue to cook until there 750 ml left. Drink one third of the herbal tea each time, three times a day.

右二味，杵为散，取方寸匕，浆水一升半，煎取七合，顿服之。

Grind the herbs into powder. Mix them well. Take 1 gram of the herbal powder, mix it with 300 ml water. Bring to boil and keep in boiling until there is 175 ml herbal tea left. Drink the tea all in once.

For person with nausea, spiting saliva and having headache, use Wuzhuyu Tang. [11]

For person with nausea and diarrhea[12], use Huangqin jia Banxia Shengjiang Tang.

Huangqin 45 gram, Gancao (processed) 30 gram, Shaoyao 30 gram, Banxia 124 gram, fresh ginger 45 gram, Chinese date 12 badges.

右六味，以水一斗，煮取三升，去滓，温服一升，日再，夜一服。

Add the herbs and 2500 ml water into a herbal pot. Bring to boil and keep in mild boiling until there is about 750 ml left. Drink one third of the tea first. Repeat once in the day time, and once in at night.

Add the herbs and 750 ml water into a herbal pot. Bring to boil and keep in mild boiling until there is about 250 ml left. Drink one third of the tea each time, three times a day.

病人胸中似喘不喘，似呕不呕，似哕不哕，彻心中愦愦然无奈者，生姜半夏汤主之。

If the person feels as to have an asthma, but not; as to have a nausea, but not; as to have vomit, but not either; feels as kinds of irritable, annoyed, impatient, in the heart, use Shengjiang Banxia Tang.　

右二味，以水三升，煮半夏取二升，内生姜汁，煮取一升半，小冷分四服，日三夜一，呕止，停后服。

Add the Banxia and 750 ml water into a herbal pot. Bring to boil and keep in mild boiling until there is about 500 ml water left. Add the ginger juice in. Continue the boiling until there is 300 ml left. Separate the herbal tea into four parts. Drink the tea, when it is cold, three times during the daytime and once at night.

If the person has vomit, then feels thirsty and has strong willing to drink water, together with slight dislike of wind, has headache and tight pulse, use Wenge Tang. [14]

Wenge 78 gram, Mahuang 45 gram, Gancao 45 gram, Fresh ginger 45 gram, Shigao 78 gram, Xinren 50 badges, Chinese date 12 badges.

Add the herbs and 1500 ml water into a herbal pot. Bring to boil and keep in mild boiling until there is about 500 ml herbal tea left. Drink half of the tea to create a sweat to cure.

问曰：病人脉数，数为热，当消谷引食，而反吐者，何也？师曰：以发其汗，令阳气微，膈气虚，脉乃数，数为客热，不能消谷，胃中虚冷故也。

脉弦者虚也，胃气无余，朝食暮吐，变为胃反，(起因于)　寒在于上，医反下之．今脉反弦，故名曰虚。

String pulse is the pulse for Water-accumulation condition. If it happens in person after vomit, it indicates a weakness of the Stomach. The Stomach is weak, so the Liver invades, since the string pulse is the Liver pulse. The reason for the string pulse is: there is Cold in the upper Jiao Cavity, but the person is given a bowel-cleansing therapy, which deplete the Stomach furthermore. The Stomach fails to digest the food, so the food is vomited out after a long time stay in the stomach. [16]

趺阳脉浮而涩，浮则为虚，涩则伤脾，脾伤则不磨，朝食暮吐，暮食朝吐，宿谷不化，名曰胃反，脉紧而涩，其病难治。

If the pulse is floating and harsh in front of the feet, the floating means weakness condition, the harsh suggests a Spleen damage. The damage of the Spleen system causes the insufficiency in the food digestion, so that the food that ate in the morning is vomited in the evening; the food ate in the evening is vomited in the next morning without digested. This condition is called Stomach-reverse. If the pulse is tight and harsh, it is hard to treat.

右三味，以水一斗二升，和蜜扬之二百四十遍，煮药取一升半，温服一升，余分再服。

Add the herbs into 3000 ml water. Bring to boil and add the honey. Lift the mixture with a big spoon for 240 times. Continue boiling until there is about 300 ml herbal tea left. Drink the tea 250 ml.

With the Stomach-reverse condition, if the person feels thirsty after vomit, has strong willing to drink water, use Fuling Zexie Tang.[18]

Fuling 125 gram, Zexie 60 gram, Gancao 30 gram, Guizhi 30 gram, Baishu 45 gram, fresh ginger 60 gram.

右六味，以水一斗，煮取三升，内泽泻，再煮取二升半，温服八合，日三服。

Add the herbs (except Zexie) and 2500 ml water into a herbal pot. Bring to boil and keep in mild boiling until there is 750 ml herbal tea left. Add the Zexie in. Continue the boiling until there is 600 ml left. Drink one third of the herbal tea each time, three times a day.

Jupi (orange peel) 500 gram, Zhuru 500 gram, Chinese date 30 gram, fresh ginger 125 gram, Gancao 78 gram, Renshen 15 gram.

Add the herbs and 2500 ml water into a herbal pot. Bring to boil and keep in mild boiling until there is 750 ml herbal tea left. Drink one third of the herbal tea each time, three times a day.

If the person has burping, and has reverse cold in hands and feet[20], use Jupi Tang.

Add the herbs and 1750 ml water into a herbal pot. Bring to boil and keep in mild boiling until there is 750 ml herbal tea left. Drink one third of the herbal tea each time, three times a day.

哕而腹满，视其前 (小便)　其后（大便），知何部不利，利之即愈。（前部不利猪苓汤，后部不利谓胃承气汤。）

If the person has burping and fullness in the abdomen, the treatment is variable depending on other symptoms, such as the bowel movement and urine conditions. To improve the bowel movement and the urine will solve the problem. [21]To improve the bowel movement, use Tiaowei Chenqi Tang; to improve the urine, use Zhuling Tang.

夫六府气绝于外者，手足寒，上气脚缩；五藏气绝于内者，利不禁；下甚者，手足不仁。

If the Qi in the six hollow organs[22] is depleted, the person feels cold in hands and feet, burping, cough, nausea, and spam in the feet; if the Qi in the five solid organs is depleted inside, the person has continuous diarrhea. In severe case, the person has numbness in the hands and feet.

IF the person has diarrhea with non-digested food in the stool, has Cold inside and Fire outside, has sweat and reverse cold in the hands and feet, use Tongmai Sini Tang.

附子（生用）大者一枚，干姜三两强人可四两，甘草（炙）二两

Gancao (processed) 30 gram; Ganjiang 45 gram, (for big size body, it can be 60 gram), Fuzi (not processed, remove skin, cut into pieces) 45 gram.

Add the herbs and 750 ml water into a herbal pot. Bring to boil and keep in a milk boiling until there is about 300 ml liquid left in the pot. Collect the herbal tea. Separate it into several parts. Drink each part in warm, repeat every two to three times．

下利，手足厥冷，无脉者，灸之不温；若脉不还，反微喘者，死。少阴负趺阳者，为顺也。

If the person has diarrhea, reverse cold in the hands and feet, and if the pulse is very weak so it is nearly hard to feel, use moxibustion on the naval point. If the pulse can not be improved, and if the person starts to has mild short of breath, he is to die.

气利，诃黎勒散主之。（或用补中益气以举陷亦可）(此为气陷肠滑之气利)．

If the person has diarrhea and the pulse is frequent,[24] and he has mild fever and sweat, leave him to cure by himself. If the pulse is tight, it suggests that his condition is not under cure yet.

If the person has diarrhea, mild hot and thirsty, and his pulse is weak, no treatment is needed.

下利，脉数而渴者，令自愈；设不差，必 (为身体正)　清脓血，以有热故也。

If the person has diarrhea, frequent pulse and thirsty, allow the illness cure by itself. If it has not cured, it means the body is to clear the pus or abscess in the body that is as indicated by the fever.

If the person has diarrhea, the pulse is floating and frequent in the Chun position but harsh in the Chi position, he must have pus and abscess in the body.

If the person has diarrhea, but the pulse is normal in all the positions, but feels hard and solid in the upper abdomen, urgent bowel-cleansing therapy is needed. Use Da Chenqi Tang.

下利，脉迟而滑者，实也，利未欲止，急下之，宜大承气汤。

If the person has diarrhea, the pulse is late and slippery, this condition belongs to a Fullness condition, indicating there is concrete and solid stuff in the abdomen. Urgent bowel-cleansing therapy is needed. Use Da Chenqi Tang.

If the person has diarrhea, and the pulse is slippery[25], this condition indicates that there is concrete and solid stuff in the abdomen. Use Da Chenqi Tang.

下利已差，至其年月日时复发者，以病不尽故也，当下之，宜大承气汤。

If a person has chronic diarrhea and it stops for a while, now after one full year, his diarrhea comes back again with the same clinic conditions, it means he has hosting stool in the abdomen. For the treatment, use Da Chengqi Tang.

If a person in the Yangming stage, has diarrhea[26] and Chattering syndrome, it suggests dry stools[27] in the Stomach. Xiao Chengqi Tang should be used.

Dahuang 60 gram, Houpo (remove skin, processed) 30 gram, Zhishi (processed) 45 gram.

右三味，以水四升，煮取一升二合，去滓，分温三服，得利则止。

Add the herbs and 1000 ml water into a herbal pot. Bring to boil and keep in mild boiling until there is about 300 ml liquid left in the pot. Collect the herbal tea, drink half of the tea to have a bowel movement. If yes, stop to drink the remaining tea, if not, repeat the remaining half.

If the person has diarrhea, however his pulse is string and he has fever and sweat, his condition will be cured by itself.

If the person has diarrhea and has willing to drink water, it means he has Fire inside, use Baitouwen Tang. Usually if there is Fire, diarrhea with heavy and stick feeling in the anus, use the Baitouwen Tang.

Baitouwen 45 gram, Huanglian (remove small hair) 45 gram, Huangbo (remove skin) 45 gram, Qinpi 45 gram.

右四味，以水七升，煮取二升，去滓，温服一升，不愈更服。

Add the herbs and 1750 ml water into a herbal pot. Bring to boil and keep in mild boiling until the liquid is about 750 ml. Drink one third of the herbal tea. If the diarrhea doesn’t stop, drink the second one third.

In Shaoyin stage for two to three days, if the person on the fourth and the fifth days starts to have stomach pain, difficult in urine, continuous diarrhea with pus and blood in the stool, use Taohua Tang. [28]

Chishizhi (half used as whole, half as thin powder) 250 gram; Ganjiang 15 gram, Nuomi 260 gram.

右三味，以水七升，煮米令熟，去滓，温七合，内赤石脂末方寸匕，日三服，若一服愈，余勿服。

Add the Nuomi and Ganjiang and 1750 ml water into herbal pot. Bring to boil until it is ready to eat. Remove the residue. Collect the liquid. Add the Chishizhi 1.5 gram into 175 ml of the collected herbal tea to drink. Three times a day. If the diarrhea stops, stop to drink more herbal tea. [29]

In Taiyin stage, if the person has diarrhea with non-digested food in the stool, sweating therapy should not be used, other wise the person will have fullness in abdomen. [30]

下利脉沉而迟，其人面少赤，身有微热，下利清谷者，必郁冒，汗出而解，病人必微厥，所以然者，其面戴阳，下虚故也。(用通脉四逆汤)

In Jueyin stage, if the person has diarrhea with non-digested food in the stool, deep and slow pulse, has slight red color in the face, mild hot in the body, he will have sweat and feel cloudy mind, then to get recovered. He should also feel mild Jue condition, since he has a Daiyang condition[31]: his face is mild red in color. （use Tongmai Sini Tang）.

下利腹胀满，身体疼痛者，先温其里，乃攻其表，温里宜四逆汤，攻表宜桂枝汤。

If a person has diarrhea, fullness in abdomen, and body pain, warm and support the body inside first, and improve the body surface condition later. Use Sini Tang to support the inside and use Guizhi Tang to improve the body surface condition.

桂枝三两，芍药三两，甘草（炙）三两，生姜（切）三两，大枣（擘）十二枚

Guizhi 45 grams, Shaoyao 45 grams, Gancao 30 grams, Fresh ginger 45 gram and Chinese date 12 badges.[32]

右五味，俰咀三味，以水七升，微火煮取三升，去滓，适寒温，服一升。服已须臾，啜热稀粥一升馀，以助药力。温覆令一时许，遍身傃傢微似有汗者益佳，不可令如水流漓，病必不除。若一服汗出，病差，停後服，不必尽剂；若不汗，更服，依前法；又不汗，後服，当小促其间，半日许，令三服尽。若病重者，一日一夜服，周时观之。服一剂尽，病证犹在者，更作服，若汗不出者，乃服至二、三剂。禁生冷、黏滑、肉面、五辛、酒酪、臭恶等物。

Cut and chop all of the ingredients into small pieces. Add the herbs and about 1800 ml water to a herbal pot. Bring to boil and keep in mild boiling until the total water volume in the pot (Clay pot, but not metal pot, should be used) reduces down to about 750 ml. Remove the residue and collect the liquid part (the herbal tea). Wait a movement until it turns little bit cold down. Drink about one third of the collected herbal tea[33]. After about 40 to 50 minutes[34], drink a bowl of rice soup (about 250 ml) to help the herb to work. Cover the body and lie down, hoping that the body is with little sweat, but not too much sweat. If the body has too much sweat, the disease wouldn’t be cured.[35]

If the patient feels better, stop to drink the remaining herb tea; if there is no sweat, continue the drinking of the second part of the tea and keep the patient the same way (as drink the rice soup). If there is still no sweat, drink the remaining one third of the tea. Whole of the tea can be finished within about 4 to 5 hours; For those with severe illness condition, continue drinking the tea as such with close monitoring the reaction. If after finish the first dose (e.g. the whole herbs collected, about 750 ml), if the disease remains no change, continue to drink the second doses of the herbal tea. If there is still no sweat, try up to three doses. When drinking the Guizhi Tang, it is forbid the cold food, spicy food, meat, sticky food (fried food), wine, fertilized food, or other food with terrible smell.

After bowel-cleansing therapy, if the person feels more annoyed emotionally, if the stomach area is soft when press, the annoyed is weak/hollow annoyed[36], herb Zhizi Chi Tang should be used.

右二味，以水四升，先煮栀子，得二升半，内豉煮取一升半，去滓，分为二服，温进一服，得吐者，止後服。

Add the Zhizi and 1000 ml water into herbal pot. Bring to boil and keep in mild boiling until the liquid in the pot is about 625 ml. Add the Xiangchi in. Continue to boiling until there is 300 ml left. Drink half of the herbal tea. If there is vomiting, stop to drink the next part of the tea.

右二味，以水五升，先煮紫参，取二升，内甘草，煮取一升半，分温三服。

Add the Zishen and 1250 ml water into herbal pot. Bring to boil and keep in mild boiling until the liquid in the pot is about 500 ml. Add the Gancao in. Continue to boiling until there is 300 ml left. Drink one third of the herbal tea each time, three times a day.

[1] Note: Zhuling San is not the Zhulin Tang.

[2] Nausea plus fullness in abdomen, use Da Chaihu Tang.

[3] Nausea with weak pulse: the Zhengqi in the body is weak. If the nausea is with annoyed, it is due to inside Fire.

[4] The Cold becomes overwhelming.

[5] This hot is due to the hot being refused by the overwhelming Cold inside.

[6] It is weak of the Zhengqi in the chest, so the Xieqi can stay in the chest to cause the nausea.

[7] The intestine is weak and Cold.

[8] The stomach is in a fullness condition and Fire.

[9] This is a condition in which Cold in the lower but Fire in the upper part of the body.

[10] This is condition in which the stomach is Cold.

[11] Taiyin and Shaoyin meridian goes from feet to the chest, so they have no headache. The Jueyin meridian goes to the head, so it has headache. Nausea with spitting saliva suggests inside Cold. With headache, it means the Cold is more sever.

[12] The diarrhea should belong to Fire diarrhea.

[13] If the vomit comes right after eating, it is a Fire condition. If it comes long time after an eat, it is a Cold condition.

[14] If the person has vomit and then feels thirsty, he should be given water little bit by little bit to drink. If drink too much water, the water will stop in the stomach to cause a Water-accumulation disease.

[15] Wenge Tang is the Da Qinglong Tang but removed Guizhi.

[16] If the person want to eat but cannot, it is a Fire condition. If he can eat but the food remains non-digested for a long time, it is Cold condition.

[17] 『千金方』云：大半夏汤治胃反不受食，食入即吐。『外台方』云：大半夏汤治呕心下痞者。

[18] With Stomach-reverse condition, if the person does not feel thirsty, it is Cold condition; if he feels strong thirsty, it is a Water-accumulation condition. Fuling Zexie Tang is a urine therapy.

[19] The burping condition can be caused by either a Fire or a Cold in the stomach. The burping here is due to the Stomach Fire.

[20] Burping with the reverse cold in hands and feet can be due to Yang weakness in the stomach, or to the block of Weiqi in the stomach so that the Yangqi cannot move from the stomach to the ends of the limbs. The Jupi Tang is used for the later condition.

[21] Burping without fullness in stomach suggests the weakness condition in the stomach. If it is due to fire, use Jupi Zhuru Tang; if it is due to Cold, use Wuzhuyu Tang.

[22] Hollow organs: stomach, small and large intestine, bile bladder, urine bladder. Solid organs: heart, liver, kidney, spleen, and lung.

[23] The gas diarrhea can be due to Qi stagnation or weakness. If the fart with diarrhea is with very strong odor, the stool is sticky, it is due to Qi stagnation, use either bowel-cleansing or urine therapy. If the fart has no strong odor, and the stool is not sticky, not like mucous material, it belongs to the recession of the Qi. In this case, use this Kelile San.

[24] Diarrhea with frequent pulse indicates a Fire diarrhea.

[25] Slippery pulse suggests the presence of hosting stool in the abdomen.

[26] The stool that comes through the diarrhea must be very odor, sticky, thick, so to indicates the combination of a Fire and the dry stool in the abdomen. The person should also have urgent feeling to have the diarrhea.

[27] The dead food residue block the Qi moves down, so the Stomach Qi moves reverse up to the brain to cause the loss of consciousness condition.

[28] This is Shaoyin Fire condition. The Fire accumulated inside.

[29] In Shaoyin stage, diarrhea with non-digested food more suggests Shaoyin Cold. A diarrhea with pus and blood in stool more suggests Shaoyin Fire.

[30] This is true for all the three Yin stages.

[31] Daiyang condition, a TCM concept, means the person has mild warm face, or mild red color on the face, but cold condition inside the body (the overwhelming Yinqi inside of the body: diarrhea with non-digested food in stool, deep and slow pulse). The overwhelming Yinqi pushes or refuses the Yagqi away from the body. This is dangerous condition. This is also a kind of True Cold, False Fire condition. The cloudy mind and sweat suggests the return of the Yangqi in the body, therefore suggests recover. The sweat is not the continuous sweat as indicated in previous paragraph.

[32] The dose for the herb ingredients in the <<Shanghan Lun>> has been a question for a long time. One of the major reasons that later doctors stop to use the herbal formula in this book is that they did not use the correct dose. The [Shanghan Lun] book is written 2000 years ago. The scale this book, say, one “liang” is equal to 15.625 gram, whereas it in the later 1000 years in China is about 3 gram. Therefore, doctors nowadays use 9 gram for the herb Guizhi in this formula, whereas according to the book itself, it should be more than 45 gram! It has been well tested in our clinic and by others that when we apply the dose according to each “liang” is equal to 15.625 gram, the clinic healing effect becomes much fantastic. This result also triggers us to believe that the later doctors apply more and more kinds of herb ingredients in their herb prescriptions, for the fact that, for one reason, they wouldn’t be able to reproduce the marvelous effects by using the herbal formula in the book Shanghan Lun. In another words, the good clinic healing effect by using the herbal formula in this book, for one reason, is due to the higher dose (a proper dose) used, so there is no need to use more herbal ingredients in the formula (in this book, most herbal formula contain only less than 6 ingredients). The dose we translated here refers to the dose, one “liang” is equal to 15.625 gram.

For the names of the herbs in the herbal formula, we prefer to use the Chinese pingyin, rather than English or their Arabic names, for the consideration that, once it is listed as the English or Arabic names, even we ourselves cannot understand what do you mean when you ask question about the herbal formula. Anyway, for readers speaking English, we have a list of the herb names in both Chinese pingyin and Arabic names for your reference.

Readers should know that, one herbal formula may be used in various disease stages. They may be used in the Taiyang stage, Taiyang-Shaoyang stages, or Shaoyin stage or others. They may also be used in other diseases rather than the Shanghan diseases. Here you need to remember in which clinic condition the herbal formula Guizhi Tang is to be used.

[33] Any herb should be chopped into small pieces before cooking unless it is indicated clear not to do so. Drink the water part of the cooked herbs (you can call it decoction or herbal tea) after cooling down for a while. This is principle for the herbal tea preparation. It will not be reminded in the future for other herbal formula unless it is reminded.

Most of the herbal tea does not need the drink of rice soup as the Guizhi Tang here. However, Guizhi Tang has other functions, rather than the sweat therapy here. If it is used for other healing pursers, it is not needed to drink the rice soup. Again, the rice soup should not be replaced with chicken soup or other kind of vegetable soup. Their healing property is not the same. If there is no way to cook a rice soup, you can break down bread into hot water. Keep it for 10 min to drink and eat the bread-water soup instead. There is ways to use some other herbs in the Guizhi Tang, to replace the rice soup drink. We will introduce it in later higher level of herbal therapy class.

Although we introduce the classical herbal tea preparation, in current clinic and in our clinic too, we used already-cooked herbal granule for the treatment. It means that you can buy the Guizhi Tang in a granule form that does not need any cooking process any more. Simply take several tea spoons of the herbs and mix it with water and then drink it. It is pretty simple and easy to use. On our experience, it works as well as the classical fresh cooked herbal tea. If you are TCM practitioner, you can buy it from herb distributor in your area.

Basically we do not explain the function of each herbal ingredient in the herbal formula. One of the reasons for doing this is that the understanding of the herbal function in a herbal formula is different among the TCM practitioner/doctor. Our understanding of their pharmaceutical function is different from those explained in TCM text book. We will introduce the herbal function in later advanced learning course.

[34] Yes, wait for 40 to 50 min and do not drink the rice soup right after drinking the herbal tea, though some doctor and the current TCM text book interprets to drink the rice soup right after the herbal tea.

[35] Heavy sweat after drinking the Guizhi Tang will exhaust the body Yang Qi, so tends to make the disease lasted longer with more disorders. This is because the fact that people need the Guizhi Tang is those who are Wind person whose physical condition are not strong enough to endure heavy sweat therapy.

Guizhi Tang is one of the most important herbal formula in TCM. The clinic application can cover from common cold to asthma, various allergic reactions, bronchitis, chronic fatigue, chronic sweat, hot flash, skin rash, urticaria, shoulder stiff, lower back pain, night urine, eczema, dizziness, and many more. It is also the most important stem herb formula that many other herbal formula are developed from.

[36] Opposite concept is concrete annoyed or solid annoyed, meaning that the annoyed is caused by some solid disease mass. This is a pretty common TCM term. If it is solid annoyed, herb Dahuang Huanglian Xiexin Tang should be used.