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| Category: Moisten Dryness ⌕ |
| Subcategory: Enrich Yin Source: Wen Bing Tiao Bian |
| Actions: Generates fluids, moistens
dryness, and unblocks the bowels [31] |
| Diagnosis |
| Tongue: dry, red Pulse: thin, rapid, weak, deep Other:thirst |
| Patterns: Large Intestine Dryness, Yin Deficiency |
| Indications: Constipation due to exhaustion of the Fluids [35] • Yang Ming warm disease (yin fluid dryness, thin, dry red tongue, rapid thin or weak deep pulse). Constipation with body fluid deficiency (Large Intestine dryness). [31]
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| Description |
| Name Variations: Zeng Ye Tang, 增液汤, Increase the Fluids Decoction, |
| Herb List: Xuan Shen(K) • Sheng Di(M) • Mai Men Dong(A) |
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| Related Formulas: • |
| NCCAOM: NCCAOM has two formulas for interior dryness. This dryness is from Yin Fluid Deficiency. Zēng Yè Tāng and Mài Mén Dōng Tāng. Zen Ye Tang is for Large Intestine Dryness + Yin Deficiency with constipation and Yin deficiency symptoms. Mai Men Dong Tang is for Lung and Stomach Yin deficiency causing cough with difficult expectoration, nausea, vomiting, dry throat. Both contain Mai Men Dong |
| Herbs |
Cat/Dosage |
Actions |
Attributes |
Xuan Shen •
Figwort Root • 玄参 |
Clear Heat Cool Blood |
Clear heat, cool blood, enrich yin, generate Fluids, soften nodules, moisten dryness, resolve toxicity, clear nodules |
Antibiotic • Antipyretic • Hypotensive • Hypoglycemic • Sedative |
Sheng Di Huang •
Rehmannia • 生地黄 |
Clear Heat Cool Blood |
Clear heat • Cools hot blood (nosebleeds, bloody vomit, bloody urine, bloody stool) • Nourish Yin • Clears heart heat/fire • Generate fluidsDao Di: He Nan |
Immunity booster • coagulant • antidiabetic • hepatoprotective • hypotensive • anti-aging • antioxidant • antihistamine • emmenagogue • adrenalcortical |
Mai Men Dong •
Ophiopogon Tuber • 麦门冬 |
Tonify Yin |
Nourish Lung yin • Clear Lung heat • Nourish Stomach yin • Generate fluids • Clear Heart • Nourish Heart yin • Reduce irritabilityLilyturf Root |
antibiotic • increase cardiac output • sedative • reduce tachycardia |
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| Caution |
ALERT: Contraindications of each herb - use with caution under these conditions:
Xuan Shen: Li Lu • Spleen and stomach damp cold • Antagonizes Huang Qi, Gan Jiang, Da Zao, Shan Zhu Yu
Sheng Di Huang: Yang deficiency • Blood deficiency • Spleen deficiency • Stomach deficiency • Can be sticky and cloying, careful with digestive disorders • food: onion, garlic, radishes
Mai Men Dong: Diarrhea from middle jiao cold and deficiency • sedatives • cough from wind cold or damp phlegm |
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