Folio Bound VIEWS - Chinese Medicine

• Zhi Shi helps Da Huang to move downwards.


• Sheng Jiang and Da Zao harmonize.


• Jin Qian Cao and Hai Jin Sha dissolve stones.

Empirical Formula

Jin Qian Cao Herba Desmodii styracifolii 30 g

Yin Chen Hao Herba Artemisiae capillaris 15 g

Yu Jin Tuber Curcumae 15 g

Zhi Ke Fructus Citri aurantii 9 g

Mu Xiang Radix Saussureae 9 g

Da Huang Rhizoma Rhei 9 g

Explanation

• Jin Qian Cao and Yin Chen Hao resolve Damp-Heat. Jin Qian Cao dissolves stones.


• Yu Jin, Zhi Ke and Mu Xiang move Liver-Qi.


• Da Huang resolves Damp-Heat by moving downwards.

Patent Remedies

Li Gan Pian
(Benefiting the Liver Tablet)

Jia Qian Cao Herba Desmodii styracifolii

Niu Dan Fellis Bovis

Explanation

This tablet drains Damp-Heat from the Liver and Gall-Bladder and is used for acute or chronic
hepatitis and chronic cholecystitis or cholelithiasis.

The tongue presentation appropriate to this remedy is a Red body and a sticky-yellow coating on
the sides.