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Warming

温法 〔溫法〕wēn fǎ

One of the eight methods. The method of treating cold patterns. Warming involves the use of warm or hot medicinals to supplement yáng qì and expel cold evil. Medicinals used in the method of warming are usually referred to as interior-warming medicinals. These are listed below. Warming is used in the treatment of interior cold patterns.

  1. Cold evil invading the interior, and inhibiting yáng qì, and causing retching and diarrhea, cold and pain in the stomach duct and abdomen, cold limbs and aversion to cold, and other signs of spleen-stomach vacuity and interior cold are treated by warming the center and dispersing cold.
  2. Yáng collapse with aversion to cold and curled-up lying posture, reversal cold of the four limbs, sweating, somber-white complexion, and a faint fine pulse or rapid vacuous pulse is treated by returning yáng and stemming counterflow.
  3. Water-damp flood from yáng qì vacuity, characterized by water swelling, is treated by warming yáng and disinhibiting water.
  4. Cold evil invading the channels, causing pain in the sinews and bones, and hypertonicity with inhibited bending and stretching is treated by freeing and warming the channels.

In acumoxatherapy, warming is achieved through moxibustion.

Interior-Warming Medicinals

  • 附子 (fù zǐ) aconite (Aconiti Radix Lateralis Praeparata)
  • 白附片 (bái fù piàn) white sliced aconite (Aconiti Radix Lateralis Alba)
  • 黑顺片 (hēi shùn piàn) black sliced aconite (Aconiti Radix Lateralis Denigrata)
  • 熟附子 (shú fù zǐ) cooked aconite (Aconiti Radix Lateralis Conquita)
  • 咸附子 (xián fù zǐ) salted aconite (Aconiti Radix Lateralis Salsa)
  • 川乌头 (chuān wū tóu) aconite main tuber (Aconiti Radix)
  • 草乌头 (cǎo wū tóu) wild aconite (Aconiti Kusnezoffii Radix)
  • 肉桂 (ròu guì) cinnamon bark (Cinnamomi Cortex)
  • 干姜 (gān jiāng) dried ginger (Zingiberis Rhizoma)
  • 炮姜 (páo jiāng) blast-fried ginger (Zingiberis Rhizoma Praeparatum)
  • 吴茱萸 (wú zhū yú) evodia (Evodiae Fructus)
  • 细辛 (xì xīn) asarum (Asari Rhizoma et Radix)
  • 花椒 (huā jiāo) zanthoxylum (Zanthoxyli Pericarpium)
  • 高良姜 (gāo liáng jiāng) lesser galangal (Alpiniae Officinarum Rhizoma)
  • 椒目 (jiāo mù) zanthoxylum seed (Zanthoxyli Semen)
  • 丁香 (dīng xiāng) clove (Caryophylli Flos)
  • 红豆蔻 (hóng dòu kòu) galangal fruit (Galangae Fructus)
  • 母丁香 (mǔ dīng xiāng) clove fruit (Caryophylli Fructus)
  • 胡椒 (hú jiāo) pepper (Piperis Fructus)
  • 豆豉姜 (dòu chǐ jiāng) litsea (Litseae Rhizoma et Radix)
  • 荜茇 (bì bá) long pepper (Piperis Longi Fructus)
  • 荜澄茄 (bì chéng qié) cubeb (Litseae Fructus)
  • 茴香 (huí xiāng) fennel (Foeniculi Fructus)
  • 八角茴香 (bā jiǎo huí xiāng) star anise (Anisi Stellati Fructus)

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