INULA AND HEMATITE COMBINATION
Xuan Fu Dai Zhe Tang
‘Inula and Hematite Combination’
Source: Treatise on Febrile Diseases Caused by Cold (Shang Han Lun, 200)
Keywords
gastrointestinal neurosis, gastrectasis, incomplete pyloric obstruction, peptic ulcers, esophagitis and carcinoma of oesophagus
Ingredients
Inula japonica (Xuan Fu Hua, inula flower)
Panax ginseng (Ren Shen, ginseng)
Zingiber officinalis (Sheng
Jiang, ginger)
Haematite (Dai Zhe Shi)
Glycyrrhiza uralensis (Gan Cao, liquorice)
Pinellia ternata (Ban
Xia, pinellia)
Zizyphus jujuba (Da Zao, Chinese date)
Major therapeutic action
Lowers adverse flow of qi, dissolves Phlegm, invigorates qi, harmonises the Stomach.
Antiemetic.
Indications
* Weak Stomach qi, internal obstruction of Phlegm and Turbid.
* With the appropriate key symptoms, this formula can be used to treat biomedical conditions such as
gastrointestinal neurosis, gastrectasis, incomplete pyloric obstruction, or peptic ulcers, esophagitis and
carcinoma of oesophagus, etc.
Key symptoms for use
* stuffy and hard feeling in the epigastric region
* belching
* retching
* vomiting
* salivation
* white and glossy tongue fur
* wiry and weak pulse
* With Damp, add Atractylodes lancea (Cang Zhu, blue atractylodes)/Magnolia officinalis (Hou Po, magnolia bark).
* For vomiting due to Stomach-Heat, combine with Coptis chinensis (Huang Lian, coptis).
* With Stomach yin deficiency, add Ophiopogon japonicus (Mai Dong, ophiopogon)/Tian Men Dong.
The typical dose is three grams twice daily, before meals. In severe cases or the early stages of treatment (the first two weeks), a 50-100% increase in dose may be used, then reduced as the treatment takes effect.
Cautions and contraindications
None noted.
None noted.