Slightly cold in nature, with pungent, pungent flavor. Attributed to the spleen, stomach, liver, gallbladder meridian.
Functions Clearing dampness and heat, retiring jaundice. Used in the treatment of jaundice with little urine, wet sores and itching; infectious jaundice hepatitis.
Usage and dosage: 6~15g. Appropriate amount for external use, decoction and fumigation. Note: Not to be taken for yellowing not caused by dampness-heat. Appendix prescription:
① treatment of yangming disease, but the head sweats, body no sweat, agent neck and still, urinate unfavorably, thirst draw water syrup, stagnant heat in the inside, the body yellow: Yin Chen artemisia six taels, gardenia fourteen (broken), rhubarb two taels (peeled). To water a bucket of two liters, the first boiled in chen, reduce six liters, within the two flavors, boiled for three liters, remove the dregs divided into three services. When the urine when the sharp, urine like soapnut juice. ("Typhoid Fever" Artemisia capillaris soup)
② treatment of yellow hair, pulse sinking thin and late, limbs against cold, waist above the self-sweat: two two chen, one of the epiphyllum as a piece of eight, dry ginger (cannon) a two and a half. Licorice (roasted) one or two. The above for coarse powder. Divided into four posters, boiled in water. ("Jade machine micro-righteousness" Yin Chen four reverse soup)
③ treatment of sick people like gold, not much speech, limb weakness, good sleep and lie down, spitting mucus: Yin Chen Artemisia, white moss skin each one or two. On the two flavors of coarse pounding sieve. Each service three money dagger, water a lamp, decoction to six minutes, remove the dregs, warm before eating, day three. ("Sheng Ji General Records" Yin Chen Tang)
④ treatment of jaundice in men: Yin Chen Artemisia four roots, gardenia seven, a big snail, with the shell mashed, to a hundred boiled white wine a big cup, rinse juice to drink. ("Compendium")
⑤ treatment of colds, jaundice, lacquer sores: Yin Chen five money. Take it with water. ("Hunan Drugs")
⑥ treatment of wind itching scabies all over the body: Yin Chen does not count how much, boiled thick juice to wash. ("Thousand Gold Formula")
(7) treatment of wind itching addiction gizzard, skin swelling and itching: Artemisia capillaris one or two, lotus leaves half a couple. The above two flavors pounded Luo for loose. Each serving a money dagger, cold honey water mix down, after eating. ("General Records of the Shengji" Artemisia capillaris loose)
⑧ treatment of fulminant ulcer wind disease (according to: this disease is the body of the plaque, white pieces): Artemisia capillaris two hold, a bucket of water, five liters, boiled to take seven liters, the first soap pods soup wash, the second wash this soup, the cold is more, wash every other day, or else, afraid of the pain also. ("Cui's compilation formula")
⑨ big hot jaundice. With Yin Chen cut fine boiled soup service. Raw food can also be, but also for typhoid headache, wind-heat itching malaria, facilitate urination. This formula is called Yin Chen soup.
⑩ wind disease contracture (according to: refers to the hands and feet can not freely stretch). With a catty of artemisia, broomcorn millet a stone, three pounds of flour, and even according to the normal method of brewing, daily drink.
(11) jaundice all over the body, with a handful of Artemisia capillaris, with a piece of ginger pounded, daily rubbing the chest and limbs.
(12) eye fever, redness and swelling. Use Artemisia capillaris, psyllium and other points, decoction, to fine tea to serve several times.
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