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rx
formula
Morus and Lycium C.
chinese formulae
definition
Morus and Lycium C. = Xie Bai San = "Drain the White Powder"
sources: Bensky and Barolet, p. 90; Hsu, 1980, p. 173; Yeung, p. 264.
signs and symptoms: Coughing, wheezing, and fever with skin that feels hot to the touch, all worse in the late afternoon; dry mouth, little or sticky sputum.
tongue and pulse: red tongue with a yellow coating, and thin, rapid pulse.
indications: Constrained Heat in the Lung. With the appropriate presentation, may be used in conditions conventionally diagnosed as the common cold, a mild asthmatic cough, bronchitis, the initial stage of tuberculosis, pneumonia, pertussis, pleurisy, and pneumonitis from measles.
cautions and contraindications: Modify in cases with Spleen Qi Xu (Deficiency). Contraindicated for coughing and wheezing due to Wind-Cold, Wind-Heat, or Damp-Phlegm.
ingredients: dosage for two days:
» 15 grams: oryza (jing mi).
» 10 grams: lycium bark (di gu pi), morus bark (sang bai pi).
» 3 grams: honey-baked licorice (zhi gan cao).
modifications:
» for Heat more from Constraint than from Yin Xu (Deficiency), increase the dosage of morus bark (sang bai pi).
» for Heat more from Yin Xu (Deficiency) than from Constraint, increase the dosage of lycium bark (di gu pi).
» for mild Phlegm, and to further protect the Spleen and Stomach, substitute poria (fu ling) for oryza (jing mi).
» for severe Heat, add scute (huang qin) and anemarrhena (zhi mu).
» for cough due to Dryness, add trichosanthes peel (gua lou pi), apricot seed (xing ren), fritillaria cirrhosa (chuan bei mu) and glehnia (sha shen).
» for Heat from Xu (Deficiency) with afternoon fevers, add sweet wormwood (qing hao), tortoise shell (bie jia) and stellaria (yin chai hu).
» with thirst and irritable fever, add trichosanthes root (tian hua fen) and anemarrhena (zhi mu).
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