Basic Shaoyang Disease Patterns (Part I)

Xiao Chai Hu Tang Patterns

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“When in cold damage that has lasted for five or six days or wind strike, there is alternating aversion to cold and fever; the person suffers from fullness in the chest and rib-side, taciturnity, with no desire for food or drink, heat vexation and frequent retching, or possibly there is vexation in the chest and no retching, or thirst or pain in the abdomen, or a hard glomus under the rib-side, or palpitations below the heart with inhibited urination, or absence of thirst with mild generalized heat, or cough; then Xiao Chai Hu Tang governs.

Xiao Chai Hu Tang

Chai Hu Half jin
Huang Qin 3 Liang
Ren Shen 3 Liang
Ban Xia Half Sheng (Washed)
Gan Cao 3 Liang
Sheng Jiang 3 Liang (cut)
Da Zao 12 pcs (Broken)”

Key Words: Basic Shaoyang Disease Patterns, Xiao Chai Hu Tang Patterns