菊花茶调散

The Prescription of 菊花茶调散

Source

The book Dan Xi Xin Fa Fu Yu

Ingredients

• Ju Hua 60 g,
• Chuan Xiong 60 g,
• Jing Jie Sui 60 g,
• Qiang Huo 60 g,
• Gan Cao 60 g,
• Bai Zhi 60 g,
• Xi Xin 30 g,
• Fang Feng 45 g,
• Chan Tui 15 g,
• Jiang Can 15 g,
• Bo He 15 g.

Explanation

Ju Hua: Dispersing wind-heat, subduing liver yang, and removing liver heat to improve vision, clearing lung heat.

Chuan Xiong, Bai Zhi and Qiang Huo: Dispelling wind pathogen and relieving pain.

Xi Xin: Removing cold to relieve pain.

Bo He: Being used in larger dose so as to refresh the mind and dispel wind and heat pathogens.

Jing Jie and Fang Feng: Being pungent in taste and disperse in nature, dispelling wind pathogen in the upper body.

Tea: Being bitter in flavor and cold in nature, refreshing the mind, restraining the over-warm, over-dry, over-ascending, and over-dispersing nature of drugs for treating wind syndromes so as to coordinate their ascending and descending nature.

Jiang Can: Extinguishing wind to relieve spasm, dispelling wind and alleviating pain, resolving phlegm and dissipating accumulation.

Chan Tui: Dispersing wind-cold, relieving sore throat, relieving itching and promoting eruption, improving vision and removing nebula, extinguishing wind to relieve spasms.

Gan Cao: Tempering the actions of all the other ingredients.

The Effect of 菊花茶调散

Effect

Refresh mind and improve vision, relieve exterior syndrome by means of diaphoresis to bring down a fever.

Indications

Common cold, headache, stuffy nose, celostomia.

Administrations

All the drugs are ground into fine powder. Take 6 g of the powder with green tea.