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Herbal Formula for Regulating Gastrointestinal Tract- Gan Cao Xie Xin Tang
                               
                        
                   

                      ASSOCIATED FORMULAE FOR BAN XIA XIE XIN TANG


                          Gan Cao Xie Xin Tang ( Licorice Heart-Purging Decoction )

SOURCE:  Sheng Han Lun (Treatise on Cold- Attack)
On the basis of Ban Xia Xie Xin Tang (Pinellia Heart-Purging Decoction) the dosage of Zhi Gan Cao (licorice) is
increased from 6 gram to 9 gram.
Effects: reinforcing the stomach qi to relieve stuffiness and stop vomiting.
Indications: deficiency of the stomach qi manifested by thundering borborygmus, diarrhea with undigested food,
stuffiness, hardness and  fullness of epigastrium, retching, vexation and restlessness, etc.


NOTES: All the Ban Xia Xie Xin Tang (Pinellia Heart-Purging Decoction), Gan Jiang Xie Xin Tang (Ginger
Heart-Purging Decoction), Gan Cao Xie Xin Tang (Licorice Heart-Purging Decoction) and Huang Lian Tang (Coptis
Decoction) are formulae to harmonize cold and heat by opening with pungent flavor and lowering with bitter flavor.
Applying herbs of both cold and hot natures, Ban Xia Xie Xin Tang (Pinellia Heart-Purging Decoction) is mainly applied
to symptoms of epigastric stuffiness, retching, bowel sound with diarrhea; Gan Jiang Xie Xin Tang (Ginger
Heart-Purging Decoction) can harmonize the stomach and disperse water and is mainly applied to the joint attack of
water evil and heat evil manifested by retching with fetid odor, thundering borborygmus with diarrhea: so adding the
Sheng Jiang (fresh ginger) to disperse water; Gan Cao Xie Xin Tang (Licorice Heart-Purging Decoction) can reinforce
the stomach qi to relieve stuffiness and is mainly applied to severe deficiency of the stomach qi due to erroneous
purgation manifested by vexation and restlessness, serious stuffiness of epigastrium, so increasing the dosage of Zhi Gan
Cao (licorice root for reinforcement); Huang Lian (Coptis Decoction) can harmonizes cold and heat equally and is
mainly applied to symptoms of irritable feverish sensation in chest, vomiting and abdominal pain, so removing Huang Qin
(scutellaria root) from Ban Xia Xie Xin Tang (Pinellia Heart-Purging Decoction) and adding cassia twig to disperse the
stomach cold.
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