Shang Zhong Xia Tong Yong Tong Feng Wan
上中下通用通风丸
Pill to treat Painful Wind Anywhere
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Tradition:


TCM

Source / Author:



Herb Name

Huang Bai (Amur cork-tree bark) *
Cang Zhu (Red Atractylodes)
Tian Nan Xing (Arisaema)**
Shen Qu (Fermented Leaven)
Chuan Xiong (Sichuan Lovage)
Tao Ren (Peach kernel)
Long Dan Cao (Gentian)
Han Fang Ji (Stephania)
Bai Zhi (Angelica dahurica)
Qiang Huo (Notopterygium)
Wei Ling Xian (Clematis) *
Gui Zhi (Cinnamon twig)
Hong Hua (Safflower)

Latin

Phellodendron amurense
Atractylodes lancea
Arisaema amurense
Massa Fermenta
Ligusticum chuanxiong
Prunus persica
Gentiana scabra
Stephania tetrandra
Angelica dahurica
Notopterygium incisum
Clematis chinensis
Cinnamomum cassia
Carthamus tinctorius

Amount


9–21 grams
9–21 grams
9–21 grams
9 grams
9 grams
9 grams
9 grams
9 grams
9 grams
6 grams
9 grams
9 grams
6 grams

* Huang Bai and Wei Ling Xian are wine-fried
** Tian Nan Xing is Prepared for use

Preparation:


Powder and form Pills.

Function:


Dispels Wind, Clears Heat, Dries Damp, Moves the Blood

Use:


Wind diseases with Pain marked by moving joint pain
Wind-Damp-Heat painful obstruction with Blood Stagnation marked by Hot, swollen and painful joints
1. Muscle and Joint Pain
2. Arthritis
3. Rheumatoid Arthritis
4. Gout
5. Osteoarthritis
6. Lower Back Pain
7. Sciatica
8. Traumatic pain that has become chronic
9. Trigeminal Neuralgia
10. other types of Neuralgia
11. Rheumatic Fever
12. Lupus erythematosis

Dose:


3–6 grams twice daily.

Cautions:


1. Not used during Pregnancy
2. Not used in marked weakness (without additions)
3. Caution: Fang Ji can indicate a variety of Aristolchia. Stephania (Han Fang Ji) should be used. 

Modifications:


1. Blood deficiency, add Dang Gui
2. Spleen and Qi deficiency, add Atractylodes Bai Zhu
3. More pronounced Spleen and Qi deficiency, add Ginseng
4. Heat and Toxin, add Rhubarb (Da Huang)
5. Red, hot, swollen joints:
i. add Paeonia Mu Dan Pi and Rehmannia Sheng Di Huang
ii. add Anemarrhena Zhi Mu, Paeonia Chi Shao
6. Moving Joint pain, add Saposhnikovia Fang Feng
7. Lower Body joint pain, Sciatica, add Eucommia Du Zhinbg and Dipsacus Xu Duan
8. Chronic Cold joint pain, add Aconitum Fu Zi, Acanthopanax Wu Jia Pi
9. For severe pain, add Nux Vomica (Ma Qian Zi), Aconitum Fu Zi
10. Trigeminal Neuralgia, add Scorpion (Quan Xie) and Centipede (Wu Gong)

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