ge gen jia ban xia tang

kudzu decoction plus Pinella

About ge gen jia ban xia tang

Ge Gen Jia Ban Xia Tang, Kudzu Decoction plus Pinellia, adds Ban Xia to the Ge Gen Tang base. The catalogue classes it among the formulas that release an Exterior disorder showing in the head and neck.

Ingredients

HerbAmount
ge gen12 g
ma huang9 g
gui zhi6 g
bai shao6 g
sheng jiang9 g
da zao12 g
gan cao6 g
ban xia—

Actions and indications

Releases Wind-Cold from the Exterior and the muscle layer

  • Combined Tai Yang-Yang Ming disorder; or a Tai Yang disorder that brings vomiting without diarrhea
  • Chills and fever without sweating, with dislike of wind and cold
  • Headache, stuffy nose, swollen mucous membranes and sensitivity to dust
  • Tongue normal with a thin white coat; pulse floating and tight

Generates fluids and relieves aching of the neck muscles

  • Stiff, rigid neck, shoulders and upper back with muscle spasms
  • Wind-Cold Bi in only a few joints, with inflammation and pain that is intense but brief and shifts over days or weeks

Stops vomiting

  • Vomiting

Modern uses

  • Common cold
  • Influenza
  • Upper respiratory tract infection
  • Stomach flu
  • Fever
  • Pneumonia
  • Bronchitis
  • Tonsillitis
  • Scarlet fever
  • Rubella
  • Early-stage poliomyelitis
  • Early-stage encephalitis
  • Meningitis
  • Chronic pediatric diarrhea
  • Gastritis
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Acute cervical myositis
  • Stiff neck
  • Stiff shoulders
  • Stiff upper back
  • Frozen shoulder
  • Tendinitis of shoulder
  • Bursitis of shoulder
  • Forty-year wrists
  • Fifty-year shoulders
  • Painful obstruction
  • Arthritis
  • Neuralgia
  • Lumbago
  • Allergic rhinitis
  • Stuffy nose
  • Otitis media
  • Otitis externa
  • Keratitis
  • Conjunctivitis
  • Trachoma
  • Hordeolum
  • Urticaria
  • Eczema
  • Furuncles
  • Boils
  • Lymphadenitis
  • Mastitis

Symptoms

Names

Pinyinge gen jia ban xia tang
English Namekudzu decoction plus Pinella

Classification

Category
Formulas that Release Exterior Disorders with Head and Neck Symptoms
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