Yang tonics
Zhen wu tang
True Warrior Decoction
- Chinese name
- 真武汤
- Group
- Yang tonics
- English name
- Vitality Combination
Warms and strengthens yang and qi of spleen and kidney and drains fluid.
Indications
For a low metabolism: cold, fatigue, oedema, chronic enteritis, discharge, rheumatoid arthritis, diarrhoea and loose stools. The book also mentions an underactive thyroid and adrenal glands, ascites, heart failure, chronic nephritis and intestinal tuberculosis.
Ingredients
| Ingredients | Amount |
|---|---|
| Prepared aconite (fu zi)toxic | no amount |
| Bai zhu (white atractylodes) | 10–15 g |
| Fu ling (poria) | 10–15 g |
| White peony root (bai shao) | 6–9 g |
| Fresh ginger (sheng jiang) | 6–9 g |
- Tongue
- white coating
- Pulse
- deep and thin
Variations
- For yin deficiency: add prepared rehmannia.
- For blood deficiency: add dang gui.
- For qi deficiency: add ginseng or dang shen.
- For arthritis: add cinnamon twig.
- For more oedema: add Job's tears and water plantain.