Chapter 5 Explanation of the prescriptions of Anyu’s miraculous medicine series
The essential objective of medical science is to resolve the therapeutic efficiency. To judge the efficiency of any medicine, the essential criterion relies on its curative effect, not its advertising propaganda. The explanation of Anyu’s prescription may give you a deeper understanding of its therapeutic efficacy.
Ling Wei Dan (Stomach-relieving pellet)
The traditional Chinese medicine considers the spleen and stomach are the postnatal base of life, and the source of generation and transformation of Qi and blood. The proverb “nine of ten stomachs suffered from cold” reflexes that gastrosia is an universal and frequently-occurring disease. The etiology of most gastrosia is mainly due to asthenia-cold in spleen and stomach. |
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Ling Wei Dan No. 3 (Stomach-relieving pellet No. 3)
[Main components] Root of Ginseng (radix Panax ginseng), rhizome of lesser galangal (rhizoma Alpinia officinarum), rhizome of largehead atradtylodes (rhizoma Atractylodes macrocephala) and other warming and reinforcing Chinese medicine (processed from pure Chinese drugs, none of western medicine is included).
[Efficacy] Invigorate spleen and stomach, warm middle energizer and disperse cold.
[Indications] Epigastric pain owing to deficiency-cold of spleen and stomach, including acute and chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, backflow esophagitis, and others. |
[Explanation of the prescription] As documented in Huangdineijing Suwen, Jutonglun: “When pathogenic cold invades stomach and intestine under moyuan, and small collateral is not capable of fully draining the cold, pain will thus occur. In this prescription, medicines for strengthening middle energizer to nourish Qi and for strengthening spleen and stomach are chosen as the “monarch”; drugs for warming middle energizer to disperse cold and for strengthening Yang Qi are chosen as the “minister”. Such composition may function to invigorate Qi, strengthen spleen, warm middle energizer and disperse cold.
[Curative effect] The curative effect may generally be felt 1-24 hours, and symptoms may disappear about 7 days after medication. Recovery can be achieved after consolidation.
[Precaution] (1) Tea drinking is forbidden 15 min before and 30 min after medication. (2) Patients with other diseases, including common cold, fever, cough, diarrhea due to acute gastroenteritis, as well as with excessive internal heat symptoms such as toothache and sore-throat, are not suitable to take this preparation simultaneously. |
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gastric disease,acute gastritis,chronic gastritis,gastric ulcer
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