Description
Zhu Fu Tang (Atractylodes Macrocephala and Aconite Decoction), from Essentials from the Golden Cabinet (Jin Gui Yao Lue).
Actions: Warm yang and fortify the spleen, dispel cold, and eliminate dampness
Indications: Indicated for the treatment of spleen-kidney yang deficiency and cold-damp, accompanied with heavy body with pain, or dizziness, spontaneous sweating, bland taste in the mouth, less eating, diarrhea, no warm of the hands and feet, pale tongue with white coating, deep and thready pulse
Category: Formulas That Restore Yang to Rescue From Counterflow (Desertion).
Source: Xi S, Gong Y. Essentials of Chinese Materia Medica and Medical Formulas: New Century Traditional Chinese Medicine. Academic Press/Elsevier, 2017, pp. 537–538.
Composition
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 warm (+1.33)
From 100% of the weighed grams.
Grams by band: neutral 17%, warm 33%, hot 50%.
Taste
- pungent 25%
- sweet 58%
- bitter 17%
From 100% of the weighed grams.
Channels reached
- Spleen 100%
- Heart 67%
- Stomach 50%
- Kidney 50%
- Lung 17%
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
Decoct the ingredients with water for oral use
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Formula family
Full herb lists
- Shi Pi Yin = this formula + Bai Zhu Fu Zi Tang + Gan Cao Gan Jiang Fu Ling Bai Zhu Tang + Cao Guo, Da Fu Pi, Hou Po, Mu Gua and Mu Xiang
- Shu Jin Li An San = this formula + Jiu Wei Qiang Huo Tang + Dao Chi San + Ban Xia, Chen Pi, Du Huo, Fu Ling, Han Fang Ji, Hong Hua, Lian Qiao, Long Dan Cao, Mu Gua, Niu Xi, Tao Ren, Tian Nan Xing and Wei Ling Xian
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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