Classical antecedent: Wen Dan Tang Warming the Gall-Bladder Decoction
Indications:
Premenstrual tension, irritability, anxiety, agitation, depression, crying, swollen, distended and painful breasts, abdominal distension, a feeling of oppression of the chest, slight breathlessness, a slight feeling of tightness of the chest, sighing, sadness, worry, catarrh, expectoration of sputum in the mornings, benign breast lumps, sallow complexion.
Indications in Chinese Medicine:
Pattern: Phlegm obstructing the chest, stagnation of Liver-Qi, some Toxic-Heat.
Action: Resolve Phlegm, open the Mind's orifices, pacify the Liver, move Qi, eliminate stagnation, resolve Toxic-Heat, calm the Mind, settle the Ethereal Soul.
Tongue: Swollen, sticky coating. The tongue body may be red if there is Heat and it may have a sticky-yellow coating with red spots if there is Toxic-Heat.
Pulse: Slippery.
Ingredients:
Ban Xia Rhizoma Pinelliae Preparatum Fu Ling Poria Chen Pi Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Zhu Ru Caulis Bambusae in Taeniam Zhi Shi Fructus Aurantii Immaturus Gua Lou Fructus Trichosanthis Zhi Gan Cao Radix Glycyrrhizae Uralensis Preparata Da Zao Fructus Jujubae Qing Pi Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride Mu Xiang Radix Aucklandiae |
Xiang Fu Rhizoma Cyperi He Huan Pi Cortex Albiziae Yu Jin Radix Curcumae Yuan Zhi Radix Polygalae Shi Chang Pu Rhizoma Acori Tatarinowii Dan Shen Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae Tong Cao Medulla Tetrapanacis Suan Zao Ren Semen Ziziphi Spinosae Pu Gong Ying Herba Taraxaci Xia Ku Cao Spica Prunellae Bai He Bulbus Lilii |
Dosage: 2 tablets x 2 times a day
Bottle: 60 tablets x 500mg concentration ratio of 7:1