Formulas that warm the interior
Dang gui si ni tang
Dang Gui Decoction for Frigid Extremities
- Chinese name
- 当归四逆汤
- Group
- Formulas that warm the interior
- English name
- Dang Gui and Jujube Combination
Warms the meridians, expels cold, moves and nourishes the blood.
Indications
For cold hands and feet from blood deficiency and cold, anaemia, chilblains on feet and hands, painful menstruation, hernia from cold and Buerger's disease. The book also mentions poor circulation, Raynaud's phenomenon, fibromyalgia, sciatica, gangrene, calluses and corns, varicose veins, stomach ulcer and painful testicles.
Ingredients
| Ingredients | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dang gui (Chinese angelica) | 9–12 g |
| Cinnamon twig (gui zhi) | 9–12 g |
| White peony root (bai shao) | 10–15 g |
| Xi xin (Chinese wild ginger)toxic | no amount |
| Akebia (mu tong) | 6–9 g |
| Honey-fried licorice (zhi gan cao) | 3–6 g |
| Jujube (da zao) | 3–5 stuks |
- Tongue
- pale with a white coating
- Pulse
- thin and slow
Variations
- For painful menstruation: add nutgrass rhizome, fennel seed, wu yao and galangal.
- For painful menstruation with yin deficiency: omit akebia, add prepared rehmannia.
- For hernia and painful testicles: add fennel seed.
- For chronic sciatica: add aconite, xu duan, du zhong, gou ji and rhubarb.