Solutions
Name the pattern:
Long-standing cold hands and feet that are both cold to the
touch and feel very cold to the patient. Also, other pain
conditions worse with exposure to cold and with underlying
blood deficiency.
Tongue: pale with a white coating
Pulse: thin or one that is so thin that it is almost imperceptible
(Cold hands and feet up to the wrists and ankles)
Cold invading the channels with underlying LV blood
deficiency
What formula would you use for the following:
Long-standing cold hands and feet that are both cold to the
touch and feel very cold to the patient. Also, other pain
conditions worse with exposure to cold and with underlying
blood deficiency.
Tongue: pale with a white coating
Pulse: thin or one that is so thin that it is almost imperceptible
,(Cold hands and feet up to the wrists and ankles)
Dang Gui Si Ni Tang***
Dang Gui Decoction for Frigid Extremities
What are the Chief, Deputy herbs in Dang Gui Si Ni Tang?
CHIEF
Dang Gui
Gui Zhi
DEPUTY
Bai Shao
Xi XIn
What formula would you use for the following pattern:
For Spleen yang deficiency presenting with:
1. watery diarrhea and abdominal pain, N&V, no particular
thirst, loss of appetite. tongue: pale with a white coating pulse:
submerged, thin
2. bleeding such as nose bleeds, vomiting of blood, excessive
menstrual bleeding, bleeding from the rectum, and various types
of internal bleeding. In all cases, the blood is pale and the
bleeding is accompanied by cold extremities, a wan complexion
and other MW cold symptoms. Tongue: pale. Pulse: frail.
,3. Other presentations including chronic childhood convulsions
characterized by emaciation, cold hands and feet, vomiting and
diarrhea; spitting of frothy saliva during the recovery stage of an
illness; sudden turmoil disorder with cold marked by the
absence of thirst; and chest Bi characterized by rigid focal
distention in the heart region, a sense of fullness in the chest,
and pain in the hypochondrium that shoots towards the Heart
Li Zhong Wan
***Regulate the Middle Pill
What are the Chief, Deputy herbs in Li Zhong Wan?
CHIEF
Gan Jiang
DEPUTY
Ren Shen
Name the pattern:
1.Vomiting immediately after eating, indeterminate gnawing
hunger, and acid reflux with or without epigastric pain (ST/SP)
2.Vertex headache with dry heaves or spitting of clear fluids
(LV)
3.Vomiting and diarrhea with cold hands and feet, and agitation
so severe that the patient wants to die. (KD)
, Cold in the ST/SP, LV and/or KD
What formula would you use for the following pattern:
1.Vomiting immediately after eating, indeterminate gnawing
hunger, and acid reflux with or without epigastric pain (ST/SP)
2.Vertex headache with dry heaves or spitting of clear fluids
(LV)
3.Vomiting and diarrhea with cold hands and feet, and agitation
so severe that the patient wants to die. (KD)
Wu Zhu Yu Tang***
Evodia Decoction
What are the Chief, Deputy, Asst and Envoy herbs in Wu Zhu
Yu Tang?(whole formula)
CHIEF
Wu Zhu Yu
DEPUTY
Sheng Jiang
ASST
Ren Shen