Description
Ding Gui San (Clove and Cassia Bark Powder), from Learning-Inherited Collection of External Medicine (Wai Ke Chuan Xin Ji).
Actions: Warm the channels and invigorate blood, dissipate cold and relieve pain. Indicated for the treatment of carbuncles and ulcers with yin pattern or diarrhea caused by cold-damp obstructing the collaterals, with cold pain in the head, or cold-damp painful bì syndrome, or multiple metastatic abscess of accessory bone, cold pain in the abdomen and diarrhea, no thirst, pale tongue with white coating, deep and thready or deep and slow pulse
Indications: It is not suitable for applying on the burst skin of the affected area
Source: Xi S, Gong Y. Essentials of Chinese Materia Medica and Medical Formulas: New Century Traditional Chinese Medicine. Academic Press/Elsevier, 2017, pp. 861–873.
Composition
| Herb | Amount | % | Role | Function |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Ding Xiang
as printed: Flos Caryophylli (ding xiang) 9 g
|
9g | 23.08% | — | |
|
Rou Gui
as printed: Cortex Cinnamomi (rou gui) 30 g
|
30g | 76.92% | — |
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 hot (+1.77)
From 100% of the weighed grams.
Grams by band: warm 23%, hot 77%.
Taste
- pungent 62%
- sweet 39%
From 100% of the weighed grams.
Channels reached
- Spleen 100%
- Kidney 100%
- Heart 77%
- Liver 77%
- Lung 23%
- Stomach 23%
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 fine powder, dust it on the plaster or oil paste, and apply on the affected area
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Formula family
Full herb lists
- Chun Yang Zheng Qi Wan = this formula + Bai Zhu, Ban Xia, Cang Zhu, Chen Pi, Chinese giant-hyssop, Fu Ling and Qing Mu Xiang
- Gui She San = this formula + Tong Guan San + Ban Xia, Bing Pian, Ma Huang, She Xiang and Tian Nan Xing
- Xiao Ji Wan = this formula + Ba Dou, Bing Lang, Chen Xiang, Gan Jiang, Mu Xiang, Nao Sha, Qian Niu Zi and Qing Pi
- Bai Dou Kou San = this formula + Shen Fu Tang + Bai Dou Kou, Chen Pi, Gan Cao, Gao Liang Jiang, Mu Xiang, Rou Dou Kou and Zhi Ke
- Yin Du Nei Xiao San = this formula + Xing Xiao Wan + A Wei, Chuan Shan Jia, Chuan Wu, Gao Liang Jiang, Hu Jiao, Qing Fen, Zhang Nao and Zhu Ya Zao
Each entry reads as the larger formula written out: “+” adds its other catalogue cores, then the herbs none of them hold. A catalogue formula counts as a core only when at least 80% of its herbs are present, no more than 1 is absent, and the absent herb is not its chief.
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