Classical antecedent: Wen Dan Tang (Warming the Gall-Bladder Decoction)
Indications:
Anxiety, a feeling of oppression of the chest and epigastrium, palpitations, a bitter-sticky taste, sighing, feeling uneasy, phlegm in the chest, poor digestion, slight nausea, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, dull complexion, mental restlessness, depression, jumpiness, a flustered feeling in the heart region, vomiting, dizziness, pre-menstrual tension.
Indications in Chinese Medicine:
Pattern: Phlegm-Heat obstructing the chest and Mind, Lung-Qi not descending.
Action: Resolves Phlegm-Heat, calms the Mind, opens the Orifices, relaxes the chest.
Tongue: Red or normal, swollen, sticky-yellow coating, Stomach crack or Stomach-Heart crack with rough yellow coating inside it.
Pulse: Slippery, rapid. The Heart pulse may feel relatively overflowing.
A combined Heart and Stomach crack on the tongue extends all the way to the tip, as a Heart crack would do, but it is wide and shallow in the centre, as a Stomach crack would be.
Ingredients:
Zhu Ru Caulis Bambusae in Taeniam Zhi Shi Fructus Aurantii immaturus Ban Xia Rhizoma Pinelliae Preparatum Fu Ling Poria Chen Pi Pericarpium Citri reticulatae Da Zao Fructus Jujubae Gan Cao Radix Glycyrrhizae uralensis |
He Huan Pi Cortex Albiziae Yu Jin Radix Curcumae Yuan Zhi Radix Polygalae Shi Chang Pu Rhizoma Acori tatarinowii Bai Zi Ren Semen Biotae Dan Shen Radix Salviae miltiorrhizae |
Dosage: 2 tablets x 2 times a day
Bottle: 60 tablets x 500mg concentration ratio of 7:1