The story of "four broth open a magic"

Ramble on traditional Chinese medicine

Prescription of traditional Chinese medicine commonly referred to as "prescription", also called "broth", a broth is generally several or dozens of taste of traditional Chinese medicine, also have blindly is called a broth, such as "ginseng soup" alone. Broth how many? It is hard to say. In the qing dynasty emperor kangxi years, 33 Wang Ang the broth rhyme formulas is recorded by the 320 traditional medicines are used such as broth, the large number of visible broth. Since broth so much, why four broth can open a magic? Originally a story here.

Qing dynasty legend, in a remote town in jiangnan, there's a ancestral generations of Chinese pharmacy, shahe sitting on the judgment seat and this prescription is the family, they are handed down from generation to generation, only in four broth, shahe generation opened for many years, also cure many local people. Which four broth is? Is "sijunzi decoction", "siwu decoction" and "two Chen Shang", "flat stomach". "Sijunzi decoction" is by ginseng (or codonopsis), atractylodes, tuckahoe, liquorice, used for replenishing qi spleen, attending the spleen deficiency. "Siwu decoction" is composed of angelica, prepared rhizome of rehmannia, radix paeoniae alba, rhizoma ligustici wallichii, used for blood, regulate the menstrual function. The binary Chen Shang consists of pinellia, dried tangerine or orange peel, tuckahoe, liquorice, used in phlegm, qi and. "Flat stomach powder" is composed of magnolia officinalis, dried tangerine or orange peel, rhizoma atractylodis, radix glycyrrhizae, used in dry wet spleen, and stomach qi. The doctor by "four diagnosis", don't see what disease patients, we try "flat stomach powder" to add and subtract, for patients to regulate the spleen and stomach, return again to modulation.

Since more than a dozen of TCM in four broth, cure illness is limited, a Chinese pharmacy, several hundred taste traditional Chinese medicine, how can rely on four broth to maintain, and operate in local generations long? Used in the original Chinese medicine prescription evidence-based medicine, and the formulas in the and not the original parties, rather than with the disease and subtract the cutting. - a broth cure a patient is, but after all is one of the few, because the patient will not be fully according to the indications of your broth to get sick, and often a disease. Living broth, the ancient but not old, in medicine and subtract fluctuation kongfu. Belong to "siwu decoction" card, for example, if the diagnosed patients is blood hot is given priority to, will be cultivated instead of hosts; If blood hysteresis is given priority to, can increase the weight of angelica sinensis, rhizoma ligustici wallichii; If the blood deficiency is given priority to, appropriate will prepared rhizome of rehmannia, white paeony root weight is aggravating, and so on. Also can be used to combine two broth, such as stomach is not comfortable and and phlegm retention, gas can be "flat stomach powder", "two Chen Shang" and used, called "flat Chen Shang"...

As is the story, we temporarily not to care about the truth of it, but there are two things can give a person with enlightenment: first, to study medicine, at the beginning of foundation effort to learn, such as broth, drug compatibility tabu (e.g., "18", "19"); Second, syndrome differentiation, the broth by disease, because people (men and women, old and young, early disease, long illness), because of the season, because of geographical and subtract the cutting, be flexible. If you can do these two points, although cannot say to, also not disorderly remedy to the case to the patient.

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