Blood tonics
Shi quan da bu tang
All-Inclusive Great Tonifying Decoction
- Chinese name
- 十全大补汤
- Group
- Blood tonics
- English name
- Ginseng and Dang Gui Ten Combination
Warms and strengthens qi and blood and strengthens the yang.
Indications
Warmer than ba zhen tang: strengthens qi and yang of spleen and kidney and nourishes the blood. For exhausting illnesses with cough and poor appetite, seminal emission, weak legs, slow wound healing from deficiency of qi and blood, and constant light bleeding from the uterus.
Ingredients
| Ingredients | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ginseng (ren shen) | 6–9 g |
| Bai zhu (white atractylodes) | 9–12 g |
| Fu ling (poria) | 12–15 g |
| Honey-fried licorice (zhi gan cao) | 3–6 g |
| Prepared rehmannia (shu di huang) | 9–12 g |
| White peony root (bai shao) | 12–15 g |
| Dang gui (Chinese angelica) | 12–15 g |
| Szechuan lovage (chuan xiong) | 6–9 g |
| Cinnamon bark (rou gui) | 6–9 g |
| Huang qi (astragalus) | 6–9 g |
- Tongue
- pale with a thin white coating
- Pulse
- weak and thin
Note
Grind into a powder and take 6 g at a time in hot water with three slices of fresh ginger and two jujubes. Two to three times as much dang shen is often used instead of ginseng.