Gui Zhi Tang桂枝湯
Cinnamon Twig Decoction
Autres nomsCinnamon Combination
- Substances
- 5
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Composition
Releases the exterior, adjusts the Ying and Wei, warms the channels and collaterals to relieve pain, disperses Cold, unblocks Yang, transforms Qi and releases the muscle layer.
- Bai Shao
Astringes the Yin and adjusts the Ying and Wei.
Helps release the exterior, treats nausea and vomiting. strengthens the spreading and mobilizing actions of the other herbs and adjusts the Ying and Wei.
- Zhi Gan Cao
regulates disharmony between the Ying and Wei. and benefits the Middle Qi.Resolves Phlegm, stops cough, clears Heat and moderates and harmonizes the harsh properties of the other herbs.
Actions
- Expels Wind-Cold lodged at the muscle level
- Adjusts and balances the Ying and Wei
Syndromes traités
- Wind-Cold assailing the Exterior, accompanied by insufficiency of the Ying and Wei
- The pattern classically termed Tai Yang Zhong Feng
Manifestations
- Fever with chills that sweating fails to relieve
- Pain in the head
- Sweating that arises without provocation
- Weakened bodily defenses
- Dislike of exposure to Wind
- Blocked nasal passages
- Absence of thirst
- Retching without vomiting
- Rigidity of the neck
- Corps de la langue
- Within normal limits
- Enduit
- White in hue and damp in texture
- Pouls
- Superficial and unhurried, or Superficial and feeble, or of a slow rate
Indications
- Common head cold
- Febrile illness
- Infection of the upper airway
- The flu
- Postpartum fever
- Hay fever
- Deep tissue swelling reactions
- Spasm of the cerebral blood vessels
- Eczematous dermatitis
- Bronchial-type asthma
- Pain in the testicle
- Inflammation of the appendix
- Purpura of allergic origin
- Childhood bedwetting
- Head pain
- Coughing
- Fibroid growths of the uterus
- Inflammation of the bronchi
- Sweating confined to one side of the body
- Hives
- Nausea of early pregnancy
- Cold-induced tissue injury
- Fungal skin infection known as Tinea
- Nerve pain
- Abdominal pain brought on by chills
- Eclamptic convulsions
- Nervous exhaustion
- Blockage of the atrioventricular conduction
- Herniation
- Sciatic nerve pain
- Pruritus
- Disorder marked by hyperactivity
- Psoriatic skin condition
- Endometrial tissue growth outside the uterus
- Stomach lining inflammation
- Lung infection
- Sweating that occurs without exertion
- Pain confined to one side of the body
Modifications
For fever more pronounced than the chills
- +Shi Gao
- +Zhi Mu
For a feeling of puffy heaviness in the head
For excessive perspiration
For limb joint pain occurring together with fatigue (Dampness)
For disharmony or Deficiency of Yin and Yang, presenting with nocturnal emissions, frequent dreaming, cold external genitalia and a Deficient pulse
For dislike of Cold together with anhidrosis
- +Ma Huang
- +Ge Gen
For pain in the neck and shoulders along with severe generalized body aches
For pain in the head
For copious white Phlegm
For patients who are recovering from illness
- +Xiao Chai Hu Tangformule
For unremitting sweating
For chronic Yin Deficiency
For asthma of the bronchial type
For atrioventricular block accompanied by heart palpitations
For pain in the testicle
For testicular pain accompanied by redness, swelling and a burning feeling
For testicular pain occurring with fatigue
For sciatic nerve pain
For sciatica occurring alongside Qi Deficiency
For sciatica with long-standing pain or Blood Stagnation
For pruritus
For frostbite accompanied by Excess Cold
- +Chi Shao
- +Grain-Based Alcohol
- +Ma Huang
- +Xi Xin
For frostbite with Yang Deficiency and a dislike of Cold
- +Chi Shao
- +Grain-Based Alcohol
- +Zhi Ban Xia
- +Xi Xin
- +Gui Zhi
For involuntary urination
For coughing and/or labored breathing
For ceaseless sweating
For pain confined to one side
For one-sided pain together with neck stiffness
For one-sided pain accompanied by joint pain
For breathlessness, coughing, wheezing and labored breathing
For the Bi pattern caused by Wind-Cold-Damp
For intense head pain
For pronounced vomiting
For psoriasis arising from Wind-Cold
- +Qiang Huo
- +Fang Feng
- −Bai Shao
- +Chi Shao
- +Dang Gui
- +Bai Xian Pi
- +Chuan Xiong
- +Ma Huang
- +Xing Ren
For sneezing, a runny nose and blocked nasal passages
For sneezing, nasal discharge and nasal blockage
For chronic Qi Deficiency
For longstanding Qi Deficiency
- +Ren Shen
For blockage of atrioventricular conduction
For atrioventricular block accompanied by a sense of chest tightness
For intense testicular pain
For testicular pain resulting from trauma, with Blood Stagnation
For sciatica with cold in the lower limbs
For sciatica accompanied by intense lower back pain
For purpura of allergic origin
For cold-induced tissue damage
- +Chi Shao
- +Grain-Based Alcohol
For frostbite occurring with Qi Deficiency
- +Chi Shao
- +Grain-Based Alcohol
- +Huang Qi
For frostbite complicated by Excess Cold
For bedwetting in children
For accompanying dysmenorrhea and fever
- +Xiao Chai Hu Tangformule
For intense generalized body aches
For one-sided sweating occurring in a weak constitution
For one-sided pain accompanied by head pain
For intense one-sided pain accompanied by a sensation of Cold
- +Qiang Huo
- +Gan Jiang
- +Yan Hu Suo
Précautions
- Contraindicated in patients presenting Exterior Cold combined with Interior Heat.
- Contraindicated in patients exhibiting Tai Yang Shang Han.
- Contraindicated in individuals who consume alcohol on a regular basis.
- Exercise care in summer or during periods of hot weather.
Notes
Taking this formula alongside porridge helps to fortify the Interior.