Ma+Huang+and+Xi+Xin,+Fu+Zi+Herbal+Combination

Acrid, slightly bitter LU, UB || Hot, Toxic Acrid HT, KI, SP ||
 * ===Ma Huang=== || ===Fu Zi=== ||
 * Warm
 * Functions: promotes sweats and relieve exterior, relieve asthma, promote urination**; wheezing, sweating, promotes urination**

Ind: 1. **ext. syndrome due to wind-cold**, such as fever, aversion to cold, headache, body ache, nasal congestion, no sweating, superficial& tight pulse 2. **Cough or asthma** caused by obstruction of qi in the lung due to invasion of wind-cold 3. Edema w/ ext. syndrome || Functions: **Restore Yang for Yang collapse; Tonify Heart & Kidney Yang;** disperse cold to relieve pain

Indications: 1. Cold sweats, cold extremities, and feeble pulse due to Yang collapse 2. **Yang Deficiency Syndromes** of the Heart, Spleen, & Kidney 3. Bi Syndrome due to cold and damp 4. Goes into the Du Meridian and takes herbs into all 12 channels ||
 * 1.5-10g. || 3-15g.; cook 0.5-1 hour longer than other herbs in decoction ||

Properties when Combined:
Ma Huang releases wind cold from the exterior "opens up the skin & pores so that the pathogen can be dispersed Fu Zi strengthens the Yang (Kidneys) and warms the body in the interior "Activates the Yang Qi to help it push out the pathogen" (Bensky) Xi Xin performs two functions: Assists Ma Huang to release the exterior cold, and it helps Fu Zi to strengthen the interior yang and warm the body.

Major Indications of Combination:
Treats shoayin syndrome complicated with taiyang syndrome Both interior deficiency and exterior wind-cold. (aversion to cold, absence of sweating, mild or no fever, deep pulse)

Rheumatic arthritis, bronchitis, bronchial asthma, influenza, common cold in weak or elderly patients, trigeminal neuralgia, facial paralysis, headache, sciatica
 * Westerm Pathologies:**

Formulas in which this Combination is Used:
Ma Huang fu zi xi xin tang