Formulas that release the exterior

Jiu wei qiang huo tang

Nine-Herb Decoction with Notopterygium

Induces sweating, expels cold and heat and expels wind and dampness.

Indications

Especially for external wind, cold and damp: chills, fever, no sweating, headache and an aching body, with a bitter taste and thirst.

Ingredients	Amount
Qiang huo (notopterygium)	9 g
Fang feng (saposhnikovia)	9 g
Cang zhu (black atractylodes)	9 g
Szechuan lovage (chuan xiong)	6 g
Bai zhi (Dahurian angelica)	6 g
Raw rehmannia (sheng di huang)	6 g
Huang qin (Baikal skullcap)	6 g
Xi xin (Chinese wild ginger)toxic	no amount
Licorice root (gan cao)	3 g

To cool more internal heat: omit bai zhi; add du huo, han fang ji, huang lian, zhi mu and bai zhu.
Together with yin qiao san the formula works more strongly in flu.