Clavey: Treatment guidelines & recommendations

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Heart Blood Insufficiency:

 

" Treatment requires tonification of the blood, nourishment of the heart, and

constraint of the perspiration, using a formula like Gui Pi Tang ('Restore

the Spleen Decoction') plus other herbs such as Mu Li (Ostreae, Concha),

Long Gu (Draconis, Os), and Wu Wei Zi (Schisandrae Chinensis, Fructus). "

Fluid Physiology and Pathology in Traditional by Steven

Clavey, p. 56.)

 

The reason for the Restore the Spleen Decoction is the Spleen - in addition

to the privotal role it plays in Qi production - also plays a privitol role

in the formation of Blood.

 

Wu Wei Zi is classified as an Astringent Herb. My definition of the

Astringent Herbs is they " plug leaks " - like the excessive sweating that

results from Qi Deficiency or the nightsweats that result from Yin

Deficiency (or Heart Blood Deficiency). There are several Astrigent Herbs.

Wu Wei Zi is one that specifically targets the Heart, Lungs, and Kidneys.

In the case of nightsweats with a Root of Heart Blood Deficiency, an

Astringent Herb that doesn't specifically target the Heart isn't going to do

much good. In TCM, the Heart includes quite a bit more than just the heart.

It's that " sweat being the fluid of the Heart " thing.

 

In TCM, sometimes it is proper to produce sweating, but sometimes it is

proper to stop it, plug up the leaks so to speak.

 

Yin Deficiency:

 

" Treatment must be to nourish yin, bring down fire, and constrain

perspiration. Dang Gui Liu Huang Tang ('Dang Gui and Six-Yellow Decoction')

can be used, plus Nuo Dao Gen (Oryzae Glutinosae, Radix et Rhizoma) and Fu

Xiao Mai (Tritici Aestivi Levis, Semen).

 

Note to readers new to herbalism: Pharmaceutical names will include the

part of the plant (or animal) that is used. Radix (Rx) is root, Rhizoma

(Rz) is rhizone, Fructus (Fr) is fruit, Semen (S) is seeds, Os is bone.

Concha is conch or shell), and Herba (Hb) usually is the part above ground.

Getting the right part of the plant (or animal) can be very important, even

critical in some cases. For example, Herba Ephedra will induce sweating,

but Radix Ephedra is Astringent. Don't want to get those two mixed up.

Some texts will put the part of the plant last - like Ephedra, Herbal and

Ephedra, Radix. " Et " means and - as in use the root (Radix) AND rhizome (Rz)

part of the plant. Oryzae Glutinosae, Radix et Rhizoma.

 

When you see the word " Huang in an herb or formula name, this means

" yellow " . " Tang " in a formula name means decoction - tea.

 

Victoria

 

 

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