Formulas · Release the Exterior 解表 · Hagan (河間)

Beautiful Marsh Free the Qi Decoction

Yeotaektonggi-tang

한글 여택통기탕  ·  Pinyin Li Ze Tong Qi Tang

麗澤通氣湯

Composition 構成

Total 40.4 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Wind heat in the lung channel — loss of smell

Biomedical correlates

  • Anosmia
  • Chronic rhinitis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治鼻不聞香臭, 此肺經有風熱也. 黃芪 一錢, 蒼朮ㆍ羌活ㆍ獨活ㆍ防風ㆍ升麻ㆍ葛根 各七分, 甘草(灸) 五分, 麻黃ㆍ川椒ㆍ白芷 各三分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑 三片, 棗 二枚, 葱白 三寸, 水煎服. 《河間》

Translation

Treats a nose that does not smell scent or stench — this is wind heat in the lung channel. Astragalus 1 don; atractylodes lancea, notopterygium, pubescent angelica, saposhnikovia, cimicifuga and pueraria 7 pun each; licorice (mix-fried) 5 pun; ephedra, Sichuan pepper and angelica dahurica 3 pun each. Cut up, make one packet, add 3 slices of ginger, 2 jujubes and 3 chon of scallion white, decoct in water and take. — Hagan 河間 (Donguibogam · Bi)

Clinical commentary 臨床

麗澤 is the Yijing's image of two marshes joined so each moistens the other — here the two nostrils. Nine of the eleven medicinals lift and disperse, and the formula is still the one named for loss of smell. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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