Description
Bai Jin Wan (Alum and Turmeric Root Tuber Pill), from Medical Formulas Collected and Analyzed (Yi Fang Ji Jie).
Actions: Dissolve phlegm and open the orifices, clear heat, and cool the liver
Indications: Indicated for the treatment of mania due to phlegm confounding the heart orifices, with vexation and agitation, obstruction of phlegm and qi, epilepsy, abalienatio mentis, sudden fainting, and saliva spitting
Category: Formulas That Expel or Calm the Wind and Dissolve Phlegm.
Source: Xi S, Gong Y. Essentials of Chinese Materia Medica and Medical Formulas: New Century Traditional Chinese Medicine. Academic Press/Elsevier, 2017, pp. 806–807.
Composition
Dui Yao — Core Herb Pairs
The classical two-herb combinations at the heart of this formula, as recorded on the herbs' own pages — each pair has an action neither herb has alone.
Energetics dose-weighted
The formula's overall nature, taste balance and channel reach, weighted by each herb's dose. Classical formulas often pair warm and cool herbs on purpose, so a net figure summarises the mix — it doesn't describe every herb in it.
Nature
Net cold (-2.00)
From 100% of the weighed grams.
Grams by band: cold 100%.
Taste
- pungent 35%
- sour 30%
- bitter 35%
From 100% of the weighed grams.
Channels reached
- Lung 100%
- Liver 100%
- Heart 70%
- Large intestine 30%
- Spleen 30%
Share of the grams entering each channel, from 100% of the weighed grams.
Dose-weighted from each herb's recorded nature, taste and channels (missing values are left out, never counted as neutral). It describes the composition — it is not a recommendation.
Preparation
Grind the ingredients into powder, mix with appropriate amount of Herba Menthae ( bo he ), make into flour and water paste pills as size of phoenix tree seed, and take in doses of 50 pills each time
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