HERB FORMULAS

LUPUS #6

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HERBS AND ACTIONS

Pharmaceutical Latin
Pin Yin
Dosage
Actions
Rx. Ginseng Ren Shen 15g Powerfully tonifies Qi, generates Body Fluids, tonifies Heart Qi and calms the Spirit.
Fr. Jujube Da Zao 60g Tonifies the Spleen and Stomach, augments Qi, nourishes the Blood and calms the Shen.
With Sheng Jiang, enhances the effects of other Qi and Blood tonifying herbs by facilitating their digestion and absorption.
Rx. Rehmanniae Sheng Di Huang 50g Clears Heat, cools the Blood, nourishes Yin and generates fluids.
With E Jiao, for Coughing, hematemesis, epistaxis, and uterine hemorrhage due to Heat from Deficiency.
Rx. Glycyrrhizae Preparata Zhi Gan Cao 15g Tonifies the Spleen, augments Qi, moistens the Lungs, resolves Phlegm, stops coughing, clears Heat and relieves Fire toxicity.
With Ren Shen, relieves palpitations and anxiety.
Colla Corii Asini E Jiao 10g Tonifies and nourishes the Blood, nourishes and moistens Yin and moistens the Lungs and Large Intestine.
Rx. Ophiopogonis Mai Men Dong 10g Moistens the Lungs, nourishes Yin, stops coughing, clears the Heart and eliminates irritability.
Rz. Zingiberis Recens Sheng Jiang 10g Warms the Lungs, stops coughing, adjusts the Ying and Wei and normalizes the flow of Qi at the center.
With Gui Zhi and Da Zao, harmonizes the Ying and Wei to drive out pathogens.
Ram. Cinnamomi Gui Zhi 10g Releases the Exterior, assists Yang, adjusts the Ying and Wei, releases the muscle layer, assists Heart Yang and warms and facilitates the flow of Yang Qi in the chest.
With Zhi Gan Cao, for palpitations and shortness of breath due to injured Yang of the chest.
With Zhi Gan Cao, Ren Shen and E Jiao, for palpitations and an intermittent pulse due to Heart Yin and Yang Deficiency.
Sm. Cannabis Huo Ma Ren 10g Nourishes, moistens and lubricates the Intestines Nourishes Yin.
With Sheng Di Huang and Mai Men Dong, for Yin Deficiency with constipation.
Rz. Coptidis Huang Lian 10g Drains Fire and resolves Fire toxicity.
With Sheng Di Huang, for Insomnia and delirium due to unremitting Heat injuring the Ying level.
With Huang Qin and E Jiao, for Heart Fire with Blood Heat.
With Huang Qin, drains pathogenic Heat from the Upper and Middle Jiaos for high fever, redness, swelling and pain of the head and face, dry mouth, parched throat, ulcerations of the mouth and tongue, epistaxis, rashes and irritability in warm-febrile disease.
Rx. Scutellariae Huang Qin 10g Drains Fire and detoxifies.
Rx. et Rz. Rhei Da Huang 10g Drains Heat, purges accumulations and drains Fire.
With Huang Lian, for a feeling of fullness and distention, Heart palpitations, mental distress with facial congestion and epilepsy due to Excess Heat.
With Gui Zhi, for combined Interior/Exterior conditions with chills, headache, fever, sweating and abdominal fullness and pain.
With Sheng Di Huang, for Deficiency Fire.

FORMULA ACTIONS

  • Clears Heat
  • Nourishes Yin
  • Tonifies Qi
  • Calms the Shen

SYNDROMES

  • Heat Damaging Qi and Yin

CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS

  • Vexatious Heat
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Palpitations
  • Chest oppression
  • Shortness of breath
  • Cough
  • Yin Deficiency insomnia
  • Irritation and agitation, possibly severe
  • Lips may be greenish-purple
  • Facial complexion may be somber white
  • Maybe cold extremities
  • Weak limbs
  • Listlessness
  • Fatigue
  • There may be cardiopulmonary or central nervous system damage
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thready and weak or Choppy or Regularly intermittent

TREATS

CONTRAINDICATIONS AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

NOTES

MODIFICATIONS

For severe Qi Deficiency: For pronounced Qi Deficiency with loose stools and a poor appetite:
+ 30-100g Rx. Astragali (increase gradually) Huang Qi
+ 9g Poria Fu Ling
For pronounced Yin Deficiency with a dry mouth, a parched throat and a dry cough: + 9g Rz. Atractylodis Macrocephalae Bai Zhu
+ 20g Rx. Glehniae Bei Sha Shen + 9g Massa Medicata Fermentata Shen Qu
+ 12g Rx. Asparagi Tian Men Dong
+12g Rx. Ophiopogonis Mai Men Dong + 9g Fr. Hordei Germinatus Mai Ya
For irritability and insomnia due to Yin Deficiency:
+ 9 g Fr. Crataegi Shan Zha
+ 9g Caulis Polygoni Multiflori Ye Jiao Teng For severe irritability due to Yin Deficiency:
+ 5gHerba Phylostachys Nigra Zhu Ye
+ 9g Sm. Zizyphi Spinosae Suan Zao Ren
+9g Fr. Forsythiae Lian Qiao
+ 9g Cx. Albizziae He Huan Pi + 9g Cx. Lycii Di Gu Pi
For a somber, white facial complexion, aversion to Cold and cold extremities: For hasty, rapid breathing, coughing and uneasy hacking up of Phlegm:
+ 9g Rx. Aconiti Lateralis Preparata Zhi Fu Zi + 9g Cx. Mori Sang Bai Pi
+ 9g Hb. Houttuyniae Yu Xing Cao
+ 9g Cx. Cinnamomi Rou Gui + 9g Rx. Asteris Zi Wan
+9g Hb. Epimedii Yin Yang Huo + 15g Flos Farfarae Kuan Dong Hua
    + 15g Hb. Hedyotis Diffusae Bai Hua She She Cao