Gui+Zhi+Tang+(Cinnamon+Twig+Decoction)

Gui Zhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction)
 * Category:** Release exterior cold
 * Preparation:** Decoct w/ water. Patient should bundle up for slight sweating
 * Function:** Releases pathogenic influences from the muscle layer and regulates the nutritive and protective Qi
 * Indications:** Fever and chills unrelieved by sweating, headache, aversion to wind, stiff neck, nasal congestion, dry heaves, no particular thirst, thin white and moist tongue coat, floating pulse that is either moderate or frail. May also be used for a similar presentation in patients recovering from serious illness or after childbirth.

Gui Zhi (9g.) Shao Yao (9g.) Sheng Jiang (9g.) Da Zao (3 pieces) Zhi Gan Cao (6g.)
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**Analysis:**
//Chief:// Gui Zhi: Warm, sweet, acrid -Warms the meridian. -Releases externally-contracted wind-cold from the muscle layer //Deputy:// Bai Shao -Benefits the Yin and contains the weak nutritive Qi //Assistant:// Sheng Jiang, Da Zao -Sheng Jiang releases the exterior while also treating the nausea and vomiting -Da Zao helps the deputy nourish and harmonize the nutritive Qi and Blood //Envoy:// Zhi Gan Cao - Tonifies the middle burner and harmonizes the actions of the other herbs


 * Clinical Applications:** Upper respiratory tract infection, influenza, post partum fever, allergic rhinitis, angioedema, cerebrovascular spasm, eczema, and urticaria
 * Contraindications:** Exterior cold w/out sweating, exterior or interior heat syndrome

Marked Nasal congestion w/ sneezing: + Fang Feng, Xin Yi Hua Shortness of breath and rough breathing: + Hou Po, Zhi Ke, Chen Pi Swollen, heavy sensation in the head: + Jua Hua, Chan Tui Profuse sweating: increase Bai Shao; reduce Gui Zhi, Sheng Jiang to 3g., Zhi Gan Cao to 2g. Severe headache: -Bai Shao; + Chi Shao, Gao Ben Severe vomiting: increase Bai Shao, Sheng Jiang; + Chen Pi, Hou Po Joint pain in the extremities accompanied by fatigue: + Qiang Huo, Fang Feng
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