gui zhi jia hou po xing ren tang

Cinnamon Twig Decoction plus Magnolia Bark and Apricot Kernel

About gui zhi jia hou po xing ren tang

Gui Zhi Jia Hou Po Xing Ren Tang, Cinnamon Twig Decoction plus Magnolia Bark and Apricot Kernel, sets Hou Po and Xing Ren on a base of Gui Zhi, Bai Shao, Sheng Jiang, Da Zao and Zhi Gan Cao. The catalogue classes it among the formulas that release Exterior Cold, and holds it for that pattern where a cough and a wheeze have come with it.

Ingredients

HerbAmount
gui zhi9 g
bai shao9 g
sheng jiang9 g
da zao12 g
zhi gan cao6 g
hou po—
xing ren—

Actions and indications

Releases Wind-Cold from the muscle layer

  • Tai Yang Zhong Feng (Exterior Wind-Cold with weak Ying and Wei) accompanied by cough and wheezing
  • Fever and chills that sweating does not relieve, sweating on its own, aversion to Wind, headache, stiff neck
  • Blocked nose, dry retching, no thirst, lowered resistance
  • Tongue normal with a moist white coat; pulse floating and moderate, or floating and weak, or slow

Harmonizes Ying and Wei

  • Exterior still unreleased after purgatives were wrongly given, leaving a mild cough and wheeze

Moves Qi, stops cough and calms wheezing

  • Cough, wheezing and laboured breathing
  • An Exterior attack in someone with long-standing asthma

Modern uses

  • Common cold
  • Influenza
  • Fever
  • Postpartum fever
  • Upper respiratory tract infection
  • Cough
  • Dyspnea
  • Bronchial asthma
  • Bronchitis
  • Pneumonia
  • Allergic rhinitis
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Headache
  • Neuralgia
  • Cerebrovascular spasm
  • Angioedema
  • Eczema
  • Urticaria
  • Tinea
  • Frostbite
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Morning sickness
  • Eclampsia
  • Abdominal pain from chills
  • Neurasthenia

Symptoms

Cautions

Names

Pinyingui zhi jia hou po xing ren tang
English NameCinnamon Twig Decoction plus Magnolia Bark and Apricot Kernel

Classification

Category
Release Exterior Cold