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Niuweishen, pungent in flavor and warm in nature. It treats injuries caused by deficiency of Qi and Blood, spermatorrhea, and cold stranguria (dysuria due to cold pathogen), regulating essence and nourishing the spirit. Long-term consumption fills the essence, tonifies the marrow, prolongs life, and promotes fertility.
(Attached Formula) Niuweishen (5 qian), can be boiled with chicken or pork meat for consumption.
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Lanhuacao, bitter and pungent in flavor, cold in nature. It treats five types of stranguria (referring to frequent, short, and painful urination), clears turbid urine, benefits urination, and removes damp-heat.
(Attached Formula) Treats women's red leukorrhea, or mixed red and white discharge, vulvar itching, and urgent, distending pain in urination.
Lanhuacao (3 qian) Hong Niuxi (2 qian) Difuzi (1 qian) Decoct with water, take with a small amount of yellow rice wine.
Case Record Once, a person frequently suffered from epistaxis (nosebleed), occurring several times a month. After consuming this herb and uprooting it completely, the effect was very significant.
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Lanhua Shuangye Cao, this herb grows in sunny places in the mountains. Its shape resembles orchid, with two leaves growing opposite each other, and the lower part of the root is slightly yellow. It flowers in winter. Sweet in flavor, slightly warm in nature. Slightly toxic. It mainly treats all kinds of corneal opacity obscuring vision; recovery occurs after ingestion. It can also rescue various types of edema, qi swelling, and blood swelling.
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Shihu, sweet and bland in flavor, neutral in nature. Its action ascends; it is Yang within Yin. It harmonizes Stomach Qi, strengthens Yuan Yang, lifts and supports, and disperses Shanghan (Cold Damage).
(Supplementary Note) For Yang syndromes of Shanghan where the pathogen has transmitted to the Yin meridians, located at the half-exterior half-interior level, or when exterior symptoms sink into the interior, Shihu has the function of lifting, supporting, inducing sweating, and releasing the exterior. It reduces fever from consumptive diseases; halts alternating chills and fever resembling malaria syndrome; treats bone and joint pain caused by dampness damaging the meridians; lifts and supports, dissipates dampness to relieve waist and knee pain causing inability to flex and extend, dispels dampness and cold, and stops pain.
Shihu Tang: In the past, a young woman contracted wind-cold. Her Yin and Blood were chronically deficient, and cold pathogens lay latent in the Three Yin meridians, presenting symptoms similar to consumptive disease. Using Shihu Tang to reduce consumptive fever resulted in headache, fever, irritability, thirst with desire to drink, and body heat as if branded by fire. After taking the subsequent prescription, sour sweat was excreted, and the body cooled down afterwards. Finally, Ziyin Jianghuo Tang was used to achieve recovery.
Additionally, Shihu Tang treats consumptive fever characterized by sudden chills and aversion to cold in the morning, fever, irritability, and thirst in the afternoon, headache, bodily fatigue, loss of appetite, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, cicada-like tinnitus, dizziness, palpitations, and soreness, numbness, and tingling in the hands and feet. The prescription is as follows:
Shihu (2 qian) Huangbai (0.5 qian, stir-fried until scorched) Digupi (1.5 qian, roasted) Biejia (2 qian) Qinjiao (1 qian) Shengdi (1.8 qian) Bohe (0.3 qian) Decoct using urine from an uncircumcised boy.
(Supplementary Note) When Shihu Tang treats consumptive fever, if the condition worsens initially but subsides after two or three days, the disease is easy to treat. If the body becomes cool after taking the medicine, the condition is mild. If the body becomes hotter after taking this formula, it indicates a fatal prognosis.
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