Interior-warming Formulae
Interior-warming formulae warm the interior and unblock the meridians, so as to eliminate cold evils inside the body, and for resuscitation as well.
Interior cold syndromes refer to situations that cold evils attacked deep into the body, making yang qi can't promote and warm the organs and meridians, an overall under-functioning state occurred. Typical signs include cold sensation, fatigue, preferring lying down, a bland taste in mouth, increased urine output, loose bowels, and the pulse is deep and slow.
Since cold influences affect different parts of body and in various severity, interior-warming formulae are designed with different therapeutic strategies. For example, formulae for warming middle burner are frequently used for coldness in the stomach and spleen; those for warming meridians are often used for painful limbs and joints; those for reviving yang are often used in seriously depleted in yang-qi or collapse of yang.
Since this category of formulae contain many ingredients that are pungent in flavor and have hot and dry properties. They should therefore be used with caution in cases of yin deficiency or blood loss.
Interior cold syndromes refer to situations that cold evils attacked deep into the body, making yang qi can't promote and warm the organs and meridians, an overall under-functioning state occurred. Typical signs include cold sensation, fatigue, preferring lying down, a bland taste in mouth, increased urine output, loose bowels, and the pulse is deep and slow.
Since cold influences affect different parts of body and in various severity, interior-warming formulae are designed with different therapeutic strategies. For example, formulae for warming middle burner are frequently used for coldness in the stomach and spleen; those for warming meridians are often used for painful limbs and joints; those for reviving yang are often used in seriously depleted in yang-qi or collapse of yang.
Since this category of formulae contain many ingredients that are pungent in flavor and have hot and dry properties. They should therefore be used with caution in cases of yin deficiency or blood loss.
- Aconiti Decoction (wu tou tang)
- Aconite Pill for Regulating the Middle (fu zi li zhong wan)
- Regulate the Middle Pill (li zhong wan)
- True Warrior Decoction (zhen wu tang)
- Yang Harmonizing Decoction (yang he tang)
