Commonly Used Chinese Herb Formulas with Illustrations - Baked Licorice Combination (Zhi Gan Cao Tang)

 

0807 炙甘草湯 (Zhi Gan Cao Tang)

 

 Baked Licorice Combination

 

Honey Fried Licorice Decoction


 

Formulation

Chinese Name

Pharmaceutical Name

Pin Yin Name

English Name

生地黃

Radix Rehmanniae

Sheng Di Huang

Rehmannia

炙甘草

Radix Glycyrrhizae praeparata cum melle

Zhi Gan Cao

Baked Licorice

火麻仁

Fructus Cannabis

Huo Ma Ren

Linum

大棗

Fructus Jujubae

Da Zao

Jujube

生薑

Rhizoma Zingiberis recens

Sheng Jiang

Fresh Ginger

桂枝

Ramulus Cinnamomi

Gui Zhi

Cinnamon Twigs

麥門冬

Radix Ophiopogonis

Mai Men Dong

Ophiopogon

人參

Radix Ginseng

Ren Shen

Ginseng

阿膠

Colla Corii Asini

E Jiao

Gelatin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

【Classic Literature Reference】

Shang Han Lun (Treatise on Febrile Diseases, 206).

Compiler: Zhang, Zhong-jingo

 

【Indications】

Traditional:

1. Both qi and blood deficiency marked a knotted or intermittent pulse; palpitation emaciation; shortness of breath; and a dry, pal and shiny tongue with less saliva.

2. Consumptive Lung disease manifested by dry cough, scanty phlegm, or cough with bloody sputum, emaciation, shortness breath, restlessness, insomnia, spontaneous sweating, night sweating, dry mouth and throat, constipation, or tidal fever, and a feeble and rapid pulse.

Modern: Coronary heart disease, viral myocarditis, arrhythmia, angina pectoris hypotension, supraventricular arrhythmia rheumatic heart disease, mitral stenosis mitral valve prolapse, endocarditis, pulmonary tuberculosis, hyperthyroidism, emphysema and neurasthenia.2,3

 

 

 

Pattern of Both Qi and Blood Deficiency

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