Product Specifications
Practitioner Notes
Formula Type
Extract & Concentrate
TCM Pattern
Treats initial stage wind-cold patterns that present with sweating, aversion to cold and headache along with the tongue and pulse mentioned above. Cold or wind-cold patterns in deficient patients that present as seminal emissions, post-partum abdominal pain, muscle and joint pain (bi) or spontaneous sweating.
Therapeutic Functions
Dispels cold, effuses the exterior and harmonizes the construction and defense aspects.*
Clinical Indications
Initial stage wind-cold (cold and flu) with sweating and headache, spontaneous sweating, joint and muscle pain, seminal emissions and post-partum abdominal pain. This formula also can address heart palpitations, wind-cold skin rashes, vacuity colds and repeated colds.
Symptoms & Signs
Treats weak patients with wind-cold patterns with symptoms such as sweating, fever, headache and aversion to cold. This formula is also used to treat skin disorders such as hives when repeated wind-cold symptoms accompany the dermatologic symptoms. In patients with non-exterior patterns, the formula serves as a supplementing formula to harmonize qi and blood, warm and free the yang and address internal disorders such as palpitations, spontaneous sweating, seminal emissions and muscle and joint pain.
Precautions
This formula should not be prescribed to those with internal heat signs or in excessively hot weather. Signs of internal heat include a rapid pulse, high fever, thirst and a severely sore throat.
Pulse Quality
Floating and moderate or weak
Tongue Appearance
A thin, white tongue fur that carries moisture.
Ingredients
On Cold Damage (Shang Han Lun)
| Pin Yin | Botanical Name |
|---|---|
| gui zhi | Cinnamon twig |
| bai shao | White Peony root |
| sheng jiang | Fresh Ginger rhizome |
| da zao | Jujube date |
| zhi gan cao | Honey baked Chinese Licorice root |
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