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Acorus and Curcuma Decoction

菖蒲郁金汤 〔菖蒲鬱金湯〕chāng pú yù jīn tāng

Source: Wēn Bìng Quán Shū 温病全书

Ingredients:

Action: Clears provisioning and outthrusts heat.

Indication: Latent wind-damp conditions where, after the exterior evil has been resolved by promotion of sweating with cool acrid medicinals to allow temporary abatement of heat effusion, the heat in the chest and abdomen remains and builds up, giving rise to scorching heat with sweating, vexation and agitation, insomnia, sometimes clouded sometimes clear spirit-mind, delirious speech at night, crimson tongue, a rapid pulse that sinks if there is reversal cold of the limbs. This formula treats relatively mild conditions.

Category: Heat-clearing formulas / Provisioning-clearing blood-cooling formulas

Method: Decoct with water.

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