Chai Hu Jia Long Gu Mu Li Wan Functional Groupings

• Primary Category: Calm The Spirit
• Subcategory: Sedate and Calm the Spirit

Ban Xia

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Pinellia Rhizome

Usages

• Dries dampness, transforms cold-phlegm, descends rebellious qi - cough with copious sputum especially due to dampness of spleen.
• Harmonizes stomach, stops vomiting due to lingering phlegm-dampness in the stomach.
• Dissipates nodules, reduces distension - phlegm in chest or neck or anywhere in the body, focal distention in the chest.

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Da Huang

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Rhubarb

Usages

• Drains heat and purges accumulations - high fever, profuse sweating, thirst, constipation, abdominal distention and pain, delirium, yellow tongue coating, full pulse which indicates intestinal heat excess or yang ming stage illness.
• Drains heat from the blood - blood in the stool from bleeding hemorrhoids or heat in the intestine; vomting blood or nosebleed accompanied by constipation; painful eyes or fire toxin sores due to heat in the blood level.
• Drains damp-heat via the stool - jaundice, dysentery, lin syndrome.
• Invigorates the blood and dispels blood stasis - amenorrhea, abdominal masses, fixed pain due to blood stasis (recent and long-term blood stasis).
• Clears heat and reduces fire toxicity - for burns, hot skin.

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Dai Zhe Shi

Hermatite

Usages

• Calms the liver, anchors floating yang, clears liver fire.
• Directs rebellious qi downwards - belching, vomiting, hiccough, wheezing.
• Cools the blood, stops bleeding - vomiting of blood, nosebleed.

Gui Zhi

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Cinnamon Twig

Usages

• Releases muscle layer and adjusts ying and wei qi levels
• Useful in wind-cold-damp bi syndromes to warm channels and disperse cold
• Resolves blood stagnation particularly from cold - dysmenorrhea
• Unblocks yang qi in the chest - shortness of breath, chest pain, palpitations
• Resolve edema and accumulation of cold phlegm

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Long Gu

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Fossilized Bones

Usages

• Calms the spirit - emotional distress, insomnia, palpitations, anxiety, seizures.
• Calms the liver, anchors floating yang - irritable, blurred vision, vertigo, bad temper.
• Prevents leakage of fluids due to deficiency - spermatorrhea, night sweats, spontaneous sweating, vaginal discharge, nocturnal emissions, uterine bleeding.
• Topically for chronic non-healing sores and ulcerations.

Ren Shen

Ginseng Root

Usages

• Strongly tonify yuan qi - extreme collapse of qi, shortness of breath, cold limbs, profuse sweating, weak pulse (often used alone for this condition after severe blood loss).
• Tonify lung qi - wheezing, shortness of breath, w/kidneys failing to grasp the qi.
• Strengthen the middle warmer - lethargy, no appetite, chronic diarrhea, prolapse of organs, distended chest/abdomen.
• Generates fluids, stops thirst - xiao ke, damaged fluid due to high dever and profuse sweating.
• Benefits heart qi, calms the spirit - palpitations, anxiety, insomnia, poor memory, restlessness due to qi and/or blood deficiency.

This formula has cautions, see details