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(Zhu Danxi) Treats internal dryness, with withered and scanty body fluids.
Danggui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis), Baishao (Radix Paeoniae Alba), Shudihuang (Prepared Radix Rehmanniae) (each 1 qian), Tiantong (Radix Asparagi), Maidong (Rhizoma Ophiopogonis), Gualou (Fructus Trichosanthis) (8 fen), Taoren (Semen Persicae) (crushed), Honghua (Flos Carthami) (5 fen).
Danggui, Baishao, and Dihuang nourish yin and tonify blood; Gualou and the two Dong herbs moisten dryness and generate fluids; Taoren and Honghua invigorate blood and remove stasis. For cases of yin deficiency with blood dryness complicated by blood stasis,

Treats guest-heat in the chest, periodontal disease with bad breath, swelling and ulceration of the gums, frequent discharge of pus and blood, hematemesis, and epistaxis. Heavy eyelids, often desiring to close. Or feeling hungry and irritable, shortness of breath,
Treating spleen pathology.
Shengdihuang (Raw Radix Rehmanniae), Shudihuang (Prepared Radix Rehmanniae), Tiantong (Radix Asparagi), Maidong (Rhizoma Ophiopogonis), Shihu (Stem Dendrobii), Yinchen (Herba Artemisiae Scopariae), Huangqin (Radix Scutellariae), Zhike (Fructus Aurantii), Pipaye (Folium Eriobotryae), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae). One prescription adds Guizhi (Ramulus Cinnamomi) and Fuling (Poria), named Guiling...
This formula was created by Zhang Jiegu, and Zhu Danxi considered it a medicine for the Heart, Lung, and Stomach meridians. It mainly treats guest-heat in the chest, bad breath and rotten teeth, irritability, and sore throat, etc.
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(Note: This formula is based on Guben Wan as the main component, with other herbs added. The reason is that damp-heat in the stomach flows downward into the Kan position, causing turbid flooding of the water source, thus presenting with such symptoms.
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Attached Minor Ganlu Yin consists of Shanzhi (Fructus Gardeniae), Huangqin (Radix Scutellariae), Shengdi (Raw Radix Rehmanniae), Shengma (Rhizoma Cimicifugae), Jiegeng (Radix Platycodonis), Yinchen (Herba Artemisiae Scopariae), Shihu (Stem Dendrobii), and Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae). It treats excess heat from spleen labor, with jaundice affecting the whole body and face, dry tongue, dry throat,

(Zhu Danxi) Treats thirst syndrome due to stomach heat, characterized by rapid digestion of food and water.
(Thirst with excessive drinking is Upper Xiao, attributed to lung heat. Excessive eating with easy hunger is Middle Xiao, attributed to stomach heat. Thirst with frequent urination containing fatty substances is Lower Xiao, attributed to kidney heat.
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To clear the heat. For thirst due to blood level involvement, where the patient prefers hot water, sweet-warm and sour agents should be used to nourish yin. Upper Xiao is mild, Middle Xiao is severe, Lower Xiao is critical. If Upper and Middle are stable,
it will not transmit to Lower. Kidney Xiao with sweet urine indicates a severe condition. Water is born from sweetness and dies from saltiness. Urine that should be salty but becomes sweet indicates leakage of vital qi, with spleen qi sinking into the kidneys. This represents Earth overcoming Water, and most patients die.)
Huanglian (Rhizoma Coptidis), Tianhuafen (Radix Trichosanthis), Shengdizhi (Juice of Raw Radix Rehmanniae), Ouji (Juice of Rhizoma Nelumbinis), Niuru (Milk). Grind Huanglian and Tianhuafen into powder. Mix and take orally, or add ginger juice and honey to make a paste, to be held in the mouth to dissolve slowly.