Gui Zhi Jia Gui Tang桂枝加桂汤
Releasing the Exterior 解表剂Release Wind-Cold 辛温解表
Ingredients5 herbs
HerbDosageWhat it does in this formula
桂Gui Zhi桂枝去皮15gDoubled to warm and free heart yang and calm the upsurge芍Bai Shao芍药9gNourishes yin and harmonizes the nutritive with Gui Zhi
生Sheng Jiang生姜切9gAssists Gui Zhi's warm dispersal甘Gan Cao甘草炙6gHarmonizes the middle and the formula大Da Zao大枣擘3枚Supports the spleen and the nutritive qiIndications
Warms and unblocks Heart yang, calms surging qi and directs rebellion downward
Running piglet from Heart-yang deficiency with cold water overwhelming the Heart: after a tai yang pattern was wrongly treated with warm needling or sweated too heavily, qi surges from the lower abdomen up into the chest and heart, the patient cannot settle lying or sitting, and the attacks come and go.
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Source 《伤寒论》
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