Month: July 2026

If you tend to cough with clear, watery white phlegm after exposure to cold or in autumn/winter, Ling Gan Wu Wei Jiang Xin Tang is a classical formula often mentioned in Chinese medicine to warm the lungs and transform thin mucus. This article reviews its composition, suitable users, and contraindications, and compares it with formulas like Xiao Qing Long Tang to help understand the logic behind treating cold-phlegm cough.

During the hot season, prolonged exposure to heat or heavy sweating can easily lead to fatigue, dry mouth, shortness of breath, and loss of appetite. Qing Shu Yi Qi Tang is one of the regulating approaches developed around the concept of summer heat damaging qi and consuming body fluids. This article provides a systematic overview of its ingredients, traditional effects, suitable and unsuitable groups, and its differences from other formulas.

What should you do if you catch a cold in summer with summerheat and dampness complicated by cold? Xiang Ru San, originating from the Song Dynasty’s ‘Taiping Huimin Heji Ju Fang’, is specifically designed for yin summerheat with an exterior-blockage pattern and cold-dampness encumbering the spleen. This article explains its composition, benefits, suitable populations, and contraindications to help you correctly understand this classic formula for dispelling summerheat and transforming dampness.

Da Qing Long Tang (Major Bluegreen Dragon Decoction) originates from the Treatise on Cold Damage and is designed for external cold with internal heat patterns. This article covers its composition, applicable presentations, contraindicated populations, and differences from Mahuang Tang and Maxing Shigan Tang, helping you understand the key syndrome differentiation point of “absence of sweating with irritability.”

Liang Ge San is a traditional heat-clearing and purging formula that adopts the approach of clearing the upper body and draining the lower body. It is primarily used for excess heat congested in the upper and middle jiao causing mouth sores, sore throat, constipation, and more. This article analyzes its composition, suitable populations, contraindications, and differences from similar formulas.

Gegen Qinlian Decoction is a traditional Chinese medicine formula that releases the exterior and clears interior heat, designed for situations where fever and damp-heat diarrhea occur simultaneously. This article organizes its composition, traditional indication patterns, and contraindications, and distinguishes it from common formulas such as Gegen Decoction and Huoxiang Zhengqi Powder, suitable for overseas readers who wish to understand whether it matches their condition.

Tongxie Yao Fang is a traditional formula targeting abdominal pain and diarrhea caused by liver-spleen disharmony. This article outlines its composition, therapeutic direction, suitable users, and taboos for reference by overseas TCM enthusiasts.

This article starts from the cold-heat combination in Wu Mei Wan, explaining its possible references in traditional Chinese medicine for patterns such as upper heat and lower cold, chronic diarrhea, etc., while also pointing out unsuitable conditions like pure cold syndromes and acute infections, and briefly comparing it with formulas like Ban Xia Xie Xin Tang.

Many people associate Peony and Licorice Decoction with treating muscle cramps or “relieving spasms and pain,” but practical application requires discerning constitution and characteristics of spasm. This article outlines its composition, effects, indications, contraindications, and differences from formulas such as Minor Center-Fortifying Decoction, helping to build rational understanding.

Who is Wei Jing Tang suitable for? This article systematically examines this classic formula from its composition, benefits, contraindications, and differences from other lung-clearing formulas, offering a rational reference for readers interested in TCM science.

Huanglian Decoction originates from the Treatise on Cold Damage and is designed specifically for upper heat and lower cold patterns. Composed of Coptis, dried ginger, cinnamon twig, and others, it suits mixed cold-heat conditions with vexation, bitter taste, and cold abdominal pain with nausea. It is not suitable for pure heat or pure cold constitutions and must be used with caution.

Wu Zhu Yu Tang is not a universal antiemetic but a classic formula targeting liver-stomach deficiency cold with upward counterflow of cold turbidity. This article introduces its composition, characteristics of cold-type headache and vomiting, situations where it is unsuitable, and differences from formulas like Zuo Jin Wan.

When experiencing abdominal cold pain and cold hands and feet, many people think of Fuzi Lizhong Wan. This article, from a traditional Chinese medicine perspective, organizes its composition, common applications, potential unsuitable groups, and differences from several similar formulas.

Lizhong Tang is a classic warming formula from the Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage). This article discusses its composition, benefits, suitable individuals, and contraindications, and compares it with similar formulas to help readers better understand its applications.

Zhen Wu Tang, from the Treatise on Cold Damage, is a classic formula for warming yang and promoting diuresis, suitable for those with spleen-kidney yang deficiency and internal water retention. This article explains its composition, indications, contraindications, and differences from other diuretic formulas.