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From Plain Questions (素问 sù wèn, liù yuán zhèng jì lùn). Heat accumulated in the interior cannot be eliminated unless cold precipitants are used. Cold in the abdomen giving rise to cold constipation can also be treated with cold precipitants provided these are suitably combined with other medicinals. Cold constipation can be treated with Rhubarb and Aconite Decoction (大黄附子汤 dà huáng fù zǐ tāng), which consists of rhubarb (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma, 大黄 dà huáng), aconite (Aconiti Radix Lateralis Salsa, 咸附子 xián fù zǐ), and asarum (Asari Rhizoma et Radix, 细辛 xì xīn). Rhubarb is cold and bitter, while aconite is greatly acrid and hot and asarum is warm and acrid. These medicinals combined together to form a warm precipitation formula.

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