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This is How To Analyse The Therapeutic Functions Of The Various Decoctions part Fifty One

Hey, I'm back to continue on the next new treatment formula for heat penetration from Tai Yang level to Yang Ming level.  In another words, the pathological situation is at:  
  • 1. Yang Ming level 
and subsequently to:
  • 2. Qi 
  • 3Ying  
  • 4. Xue level respectively

The representative treatment formula in Yang Ming level is Bai Hu Tang.


BAI HU TANG


So, this decoction consists of:

  • Zhī 
  • Shí Gāo 
  • Zhì Gān Cǎo
  • Jīng Mǐ

Then, the selection and reason why each individual herbs are classified into the respective classification are explained here.  This is how to analyse the therapeutic functions of the various decoctions. (part 51)


Minister's herb

Zhi Mu

As usual,  we've to bear in mind the threshold created in the previous blog for the herb selection like what we had discussed.


Association to the Specific Meridian Channel


Zhi Mu is better known as Anemarrhena Asphodeloides in Latin and belongs to the Family of Asparagaceae.   It is associated with the

  • Lung
  • Stomach  
  • Kidney -  Meridian Channel respectively 




Specific Taste


The specific taste of this herb is:

  • Zhi Mu -    sweet inclined to bitterness


Specific Property


The specific property of Zhi Mu  is: 

  • cold




Big white rice (JING MI)


I'll discuss more on this herb above which is a typical domestic food called Jing Mi or big white rice.

Apply (Ku Han Qing Re Xie Huo Zi Yin Run Zao) whenever Zhi Mu is used.

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New development - Effective application of Zhi Mu when these observations are noted:

  • 1)  High feverish temperature
  • 2)  Polydipsis
  • 3)  Cough with thick phlegm due to  overall Yin deficiency
  • 4)  Mild enuresis due to overall Yin deficiency


I'll leave you now because you needed more time to digest this blog and in the meanwhile I'll prepare the herb to be discussed in the next blog. 




Best of all,




Xiong






















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