Composition of Pulsatilla Soup

Baitouweng Decoction is the name of a Chinese medicine prescription. It has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying, and is very beneficial to physical health. As we all know, Chinese medicine has a very long history. Some traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions can not only be used to treat diseases, but also to maintain health, and the effects are very good. Baitouweng Decoction is a good prescription that can both treat diseases and maintain health. The composition of Baitouweng Decoction is introduced below.

What are the ingredients of Pulsatilla Soup?

【Prescription name】

Whitehead Soup

【Source】

Treatise on Febrile Diseases

【composition】

2 liang (15g) of Phellodendron chinense, 3 liang (12g) of Phellodendron chinense, 3 liang (6g) of Coptis chinensis, and 3 liang (12g) of Qinpi.

【usage】

Take the above four herbs, add seven liters of water, boil and take two liters, remove the residue, take one liter while warm, if the condition does not improve, take another liter. Modern usage: decoction in water.

【Fang Ge】

Bai Tou Weng Decoction is used to treat heat dysentery, and contains Coptis chinensis, Phellodendron chinense and Qinpi. Clears away heat, detoxifies and cools blood, treats pus and blood with more red and less white.

【Recipe explanation】

The syndrome of this prescription is caused by damp-heat epidemic toxins deeply trapped in the blood and pressing down on the large intestine. Epidemic toxins stagnate in the large intestine and damage blood vessels, causing diarrhea with pus and blood, with more red and less white. Heat toxins block the Qi flow, causing abdominal pain, tenesmus, thirst, desire to drink water, red tongue with yellow coating, and a stringy and rapid pulse, all of which are signs of internal heat evil. The treatment is suitable for clearing away heat, detoxifying, cooling blood and stopping dysentery. The whitehead in the prescription specifically targets the large intestine meridian, clears away heat and detoxifies, cools blood and stops dysentery. It is especially good at clearing damp heat from the stomach and intestines and heat toxins from the blood. It is an essential medicine for treating heat-toxic bloody dysentery and is the main medicine. Coptis chinensis is bitter and cold, and can purge fire, detoxify, dry dampness and thicken the intestines. It is an important medicine for treating dysentery; Phellodendron chinense is good at clearing damp heat in the lower abdomen and stopping dysentery. The two medicines help the main medicine to clear heat, detoxify and dry dampness, and they are the assistant medicines. Qinpi is bitter, cold and astringent. It can clear away heat and detoxify, and also astringe the intestines to stop dysentery, so it is an adjuvant drug. The combination of four heat-clearing, detoxifying and anti-dysentery medicines has a strong effect and is an effective prescription for treating heat-toxic and bloody dysentery.

【Effects and functions】

Clears away heat and detoxifies, cools blood and stops dysentery.

【Indications】

Heat toxic dysentery. Abdominal pain, tenesmus, burning sensation in the anus, diarrhea with pus and blood, more red and less white, thirst for water, red tongue with yellow coating, and rapid and stringy pulse.

【Clinical Application】

1. Key points of the prescription: This prescription is commonly used to treat diarrhea caused by heat toxicity deeply trapped in the blood. The key points of clinical diagnosis are abdominal pain and diarrhea, more red and less white, tenesmus, red tongue with yellow coating, and stringy and rapid pulse.

2. In modern application, this prescription is often used to treat amoebic dysentery and bacillary dysentery caused by excessive heat and toxicity.

【Addition and subtraction】

If there is external evil, aversion to cold and fever, add Pueraria lobata, Forsythia suspensa, and Lonicera japonica to clear the surface and relieve fever; if tenesmus is severe, add costus root, areca catechu, and fructus aurantii to regulate qi; if there is a lot of pus and blood, add red peony root, moutan bark, and dandelion to cool the blood and harmonize the blood; if there is food stagnation, add charred hawthorn and immature bitter orange to digest food and remove stagnation; for amoebic dysentery, it is better to take Brucea javanica (wrapped in longan pulp) together with it.

【Use precautions】

Precautions: People with weak spleen and stomach should use with caution.