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.Functions: Courses wind and stops painIndications: External invasion of wind evils headache.Common cold and flus with headache, migraines,tension headache, neurogenic headache, acute and chronic rhinitis and sinusitis, vertigoMain signs & symptoms: Headache in any part of the head accompanied by fever, aversion to wind and cold,fever, possible dizziness, nasal congestion, a thin, white tongue coating, and a floating, tight pulseContraindications:1.Do not use to treat liver yang ascendant or liver/kidney dual vacuity, i.e., yin vacuity, headache.2.Do not use to treat qi and blood vacuity headache.If you like this book, buy it!Page 159Formula explanation:Within this formula, Ligusticum, Angelica, and Notopterygium course wind and stop pain.Ligusticum has anaffinity for treating shao yin and jue yin channel headaches.Notopterygium has an affinity for treating tai yangchannel headaches, and Angelica has an affinity for treating yang ming channel headaches.These are thesovereign medicinals in this prescription.Asarum scatters cold and stops pain.It is able to treat shao yinchannel headache.Mint is able to clear and disinhibit the head and eyes.It tracks down wind and scatters heat.Schizonepeta and Ledebouriella are acrid, scattering, and move upward.They course and scatter wind evilsfrom the upper parts.Each of these medicinals assist the sovereign medicinal and strengthen the coursing ofwind and stopping of pain.They are also able to relieve the exterior and are the minister medicinals.Licoriceregulates and harmonizes all these other medicinals.It is used occasionally with Green Tea in order to regulateits precipitation.Green Tea's nature and flavor are bitter and cold.Thus, it is able to clear the head and eyesabove.Together, these two are able to restrain the other warm, drying, upbearing, and scattering medicinals.Therefore, these two are the assistant and messenger medicinals.Additions & subtractions:For wind cold headache or marked aversion to cold, subtract Mint and add raw Rhizoma Zingiberis (ShengJiang) and Folium Perillae Frutescentis (Su Ye).For wind heat headache with a yellow coated tongue and a rapid pulse, subtract Notopterygium and Asarumand add Flos Chrysanthemi Morifolii (Ju Hua), Fructus Viticis (Man Jing Zi), and Ramulus Uncariae CumUncis (Gou Teng).For chronic rhinitis and nasal sinusitis, add Flos Magnoliae (Xin Yi Hua) and Fructus Xanthii (Cang Er Zi).For headache due to wind heat with dizziness and vertigo, add Flos Chrysanthemi Morifolii (Ju Hua), BombyxBatryticatus (Jiang Can), and mix-fried Radix Glycyrrhizae (Zhi Gan Cao).This results in Ju Hua Cha TiaoSan (Chrysanthemum & Tea Regulating Powder).If you like this book, buy it!Page 160For chronic headache complicated by blood stasis, add Flos Carthami Tinctorii (Hong Hua), Semen PruniPersicae (Tao Ren), Bombyx Batryticatus (Jiang Can), and Buthus Martensis (Quan Xie).For headache predominately along the course of the tai yang, add Radix Et Rhizoma Ligustici Chinensis (GaoBen).For headache predominately along the course of the shao yang, add Radix Bupleuri (Chai Hu).For headache predominately along the course of the yang ming, add Radix Puerariae Lobatae (Ge Gen).For headaches predominately at the vertex, i.e., along the course of the jue yin, add Fructus Evodiae Rutecarpae(Wu Zhu Yu) and Lumbricus (Di Long).12.2 Ping Xi Nei Feng Ji (Levelling & extinguishing internal wind formulas)Representative formulas:A.Zhen Gan Xi Feng Tang (Settle the Liver & Extinguish Wind Decoction) [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]