Hey, I'm back to write on the next formula in the same topic to dissolve the trapped hot phlegm which is:
Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang
Ma Huang - Monarch
Xing Ren - 4th Division Officer
Shi Gao - Minister
Gan Cao - Messenger
Once again, we've already covered the analysis of Ma Huang, Xing Ren and Gan Cao and please refer to them as a quick revision.
Minister's Herbs
Today I'll be touching on the Minister's herbs:
- Shi Gao
The scientific name for this herb is:
- Gypsum which is an Ore and CaSo4•2H2o is the chemical bond
We now begin with the threshold established.
Association to the Specific Meridian Channel
Shi Gao is associated with:
- Lung
- Stomach - Meridian Channel respectively
Shi Gao is associated with:
- Lung
- Stomach - Meridian Channel respectively
Specific Taste
The specific taste of this herb is as follow:
- Shi Gao - pungent, sweet
- Shi Gao - pungent, sweet
Specific Property
The specific property of Shi Gao is
- Cold
Traditional
These are the traditional common suitable treatments using Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang:
- Fever
- Intensive Cough
- Polydipsia
- Dry mouth and Nose
- Thick phlegm
- Urinary Hesitancy
- Puffy Face
- Irritability
The specific property of Shi Gao is
- Cold
Traditional
These are the traditional common suitable treatments using Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang:
- Fever
- Intensive Cough
- Polydipsia
- Dry mouth and Nose
- Thick phlegm
- Urinary Hesitancy
- Puffy Face
- Irritability
Apply (Xin Gan Han Qing Re Chu Fan Zhi Ke) whenever Shi Gao is used.
Contemporary
Wow, wow, wow, you would never think of such a vast and enormous treatment applications for Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang and of course there must be some quantity adjustment as well as combination of some other secondary herbs to complememt and supplement the main decoction. More importantly, the main decoction should blend with the other additional herbs displaying its principal healing effect as the shadow especially catered for pneumonia fever and related sickness. Whatever it is, let's get to know them first and will discuss them as and when necssary. So they are:
- lobar pneumonia
- bronchial asthma
- viral pneumonia
- allergic bronchial asthma
- measles pneumonia
- acute bronchitis
- senile chronic bronchitis
- eosinophilic pneumonia
- lung abscess
- whooping cough
- epidemic Cold
- epidemic hemorrhagic fever
- epidemic encephalitis
- drug fever
- bronchial asthma with yellow phlegm
- suppurative sinusitis
- epistaxis
- rosacea
- suppurative otitis media
- acute glossitis
- diphtheria
- suppurative tonsillitis
- suppurative keratitis
- fulminant conjunctivitis
- corneal ulcer
- dacryocystitis
- psoriasis
- contact dermatitis
- urticaria,
- pityriasis rosea
- acute urethritis
- hemorrhoids
- orchitis
- postoperative urinary retention
- enuresis.
The list can still goes on as more practitioners analyse and form other formulas with Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang as the basis.
I'll leave you now so that you would have more time to digest this blog as there are 35 new sick terminologies.
Best of all,
Xiong
***Reference:
( Emperor's Interior Sutra is available on sales better known as the esoteric scripture of the yellow emperor in Amazon, it's just a different way of naming the book cover)