Description
Da Huang Dang Gui San (Rhubarb and Chinese Angelica Powder), from Golden Mirror of the Medical Tradition (Yi Zong Jin Jian).
Actions: Clear heat and dissolve stasis
Indications: Indicated for the treatment of hyphema and vitreous hemorrhage with a pattern of heat accumulation in blood aspect, accompanied with inching and stabbing pain in the eyes, chemosis and hyperemia of the bulbar conjunctiva, scorching hot pain, hyphema and vitreous hemorrhage, thirst but no desire to drink, crimson tongue with yellow and dry coating, rapid and forceful pulse
Category: Formulas That Invigorate Blood and Dispel Stasis.
Source: Xi S, Gong Y. Essentials of Chinese Materia Medica and Medical Formulas: New Century Traditional Chinese Medicine. Academic Press/Elsevier, 2017, pp. 692–700.
Composition
| Herb | Amount | % | Role | Function |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Huang Qin
as printed: Radix Scutellariae (huang qin) 30 g
|
30g | 19.23% | — | |
|
Mu Zei
as printed: Herba Equiseti Hiemalis (mu zei) 30 g
|
30g | 19.23% | — | |
|
Da Huang
as printed: Radix et Rhizoma Rhei (jiu da huang) 30 g
|
30g | 19.23% | — | |
|
Zhi Zi
as printed: Fructus Gardeniae (zhi zi) 15 g
|
15g | 9.62% | — | |
|
Su Mu
as printed: Lignum Sappan (su mu) 15 g
|
15g | 9.62% | — | |
|
Dang Gui
as printed: Radix Angelicae Sinensis (dang gui) 3 g
|
3g | 1.92% | — | |
|
Hong Hua
as printed: Flos Carthami (hong hua) 24 g
|
24g | 15.38% | — | |
|
Ju Hua
as printed: Flos Chrysanthemi (ju hua) 9 g
|
9g | 5.77% | — |
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 cool (-0.85)
From 100% of the weighed grams.
Grams by band: cold 48%, cool 6%, neutral 29%, warm 17%.
Small but decisive: Zhi Zi 15g (cold, 10% of the grams). Dose weighting nearly cancels a herb this small, but it may be what the formula is for.
Taste
- pungent 20%
- sweet 17%
- bitter 61%
- salty 3%
From 100% of the weighed grams.
Channels reached
- Liver 71%
- Lung 69%
- Heart 56%
- Spleen 50%
- Large intestine 39%
- Stomach 39%
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 aforementioned ingredients into fine powder, and take in 6 g doses with green tea, 2 times a day; or discount dose according to the original proportion and decoct the ingredients with water for oral use
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