Who should not take Wen Dan Tang?

Many people need to go to the hospital for regular consultation when choosing Chinese medicine to regulate their bodies. This is because after using the medicine, it cannot meet or adapt to the patient's physical condition, so the prescription needs to be changed. Although Wen Dan Tang is a prescription that can relieve insomnia and eliminate dampness, it is not suitable for everyone. However, it is not a good medicine for some patients with cold constitution.

1. Effects of Wen Dan Tang

Wen Dan Tang is mainly composed of bamboo shavings, ginger, Poria cocos, tangerine peel and other substances. In fact, Wen Dan Tang is not used to warm the gallbladder, but to help us clear the gallbladder and stomach. It contains a substance called Erchen Decoction, which can dissolve phlegm and dampness in the middle burner and eliminate the internal heat in our gallbladder. Combined with the ingredients of bamboo shavings, the two work together to stop vomiting. Therefore, Wen Dan Tang has the effects of resolving phlegm and soothing the stomach, nourishing the heart and calming the mind. Wen Dan Tang can also effectively regulate women's irregular menstruation and weak kidney qi.

2. Clinical Application

1. This prescription is a commonly used prescription for treating damp phlegm with signs of heat transformation. This prescription can be used with modifications for patients who have clinical symptoms such as restlessness, insomnia, dizziness, palpitations, vomiting, nausea, white and greasy yellow tongue coating, and stringy and slippery or slightly rapid pulse.

2. Addition and subtraction: If you feel hot and irritable, add Coptis chinensis and Ophiopogon japonicus to clear away heat and relieve restlessness; if you have dry mouth and tongue, add Ophiopogon japonicus and Radix Trichosanthis to moisten dryness and promote salivation; if you have epilepsy and convulsions, add Gastrodia elata, Uncaria rhynchophylla and Scorpio to extinguish wind and stop convulsions.

Effects of Wen Dan Tang

3. Prescription of Wen Dan Tang

【Recipe】Wash the Banxia decoction seven times, stir-fry the bamboo shavings and the Citrus aurantium with bran, remove the pulp, 2 liang (60g) each, 3 liang (90g) of dried tangerine peel, 1 liang (30g) of licorice, 1.5 liang (45g) of roasted Poria cocos, 5 slices of ginger, and 1 jujube;

[Usage] Grind the above medicine into powder. Take 12 grams each time, use 1 liter of running water, add appropriate amount of glutinous rice, boil, stir two to three thousand times, clarify, use 300 ml each time, then add medicine and boil until 210 ml remains, remove the residue, and take at any time.

[Explanation of the prescription] This prescription is commonly used to treat insomnia, palpitations, vomiting, dizziness, and epilepsy caused by gallbladder depression and phlegm disturbance. In clinical application, the key points of syndrome differentiation are restlessness, insomnia, dizziness, palpitations, nausea, white and greasy tongue coating, and stringy and slippery pulse.

[Formula Song] In Wen Dan Tang, there are Poria, Pinellia, Citrus aurantium, Tangerine peel, ginger and jujube; there are many symptoms of deficiency, restlessness and insomnia, which is caused by deficiency of the gallbladder and phlegm disturbing the gallbladder.

4. What are the unsuitable groups?

Although Wen Dan Tang is effective in treating vomiting, abdominal distension, dizziness, cough and sputum caused by phlegm heat and accumulation, it should not be used for people with cold constitution or phlegm-damp constitution.

In addition, because Wen Dan Tang is made up of a combination of multiple Chinese medicines, it is not recommended to take other Chinese patent medicines with the same effect or type while taking it, so as not to affect the efficacy of the medicine.