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Ji Chuan Jian (Benefit the River [Flow] Decoction)

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2020-07-15 09:05:42

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<div align="center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Monotype Corsiva; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #b7e768">Ji Chuan Jian</span></div>
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<div align="center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">(Benefit the River [Flow] Decoction)</span></div>
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<div align="center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The name of this formula is derived from its function of warming and moistening in order to move the stool. </span></div>
<div align="center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Ji</span> means to aid or relieve and suggests the action of tonifying or increasing. </span></div>
<div align="center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Chuan </span>means river which refers to the fluids flowing through the body. </span></div>
<div align="center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Tonifying the Kidneys facilitates the distribution of fluids, thereby helping to move the stool.</span></div>
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<div align="center"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Source:</span> </span></div>
<div align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Collected Treatises of [Zhang] Jing-Yue (Jing Yue Quan Shu)</span></div><div align="center"><div dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: center; font-size: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Herba Cistanches (Rou Cong Rong) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;"> 6-9g</span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: center; font-size: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Radix Angelicae Sinensis (Dang Gui) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;">9-15g</span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: center; font-size: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae (Niu Xi) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;">6g</span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: center; font-size: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Rhizoma Alismatis Orientalis (Ze Xie) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;"> 4.5g</span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: center; font-size: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Fructus Citri seu Ponciri (Zhi Ke) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;">3g</span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: center; font-size: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Rhizoma Cimicifugae (Sheng Ma) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;">1.5-3g</span></div></div>
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<div align="center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Preparation:</span></div>
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<div align="center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Warms the Kidneys</span></div>
<div align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Moistens the Intestines</span></div>
<div align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Unblocks the bowels</span></div>
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<p align="center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #0000cd; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">INDICATIONS:</span></p>
<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Constipation, clear and copious urine, lower back pain, and a cold sensation in the back.</span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">This is constipation due to Kidney yang and qi deficiency. The Kidney yang is the foundation of the yang for the entire body. Its functions include controlling the process that transform and circulates water through the body. When the Kidney yang and qi are deficient, the process of warming and transforming the water is weakened. The water is not moved from the Bladder, resulting in clear and copious urine. This same disruption in the normal circulation of water in the lower burner dries out the Intestines and leads to constipation. Deficiency of Kidney yang also deprives the Kidneys of proper nourishment and warmth. Becuase the lower back is the residence of the Kidneys, there is pain and a sensation of cold in that part of the body.</span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Herba Cistanches (Rou Cong Rong)</span>: warm and tonify the Kidney yang, warm the lower back, and moistens the Intestines to unblock the bowels</span></div></li></ul>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Radix Angelicae Sinensis (Dang Gui)</span>: nourish and harmonize the blood and moisten the Intestines</span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae (Niu Xi)</span>: strengthen the lower back and Kidneys, also has a descending nature which focuses the actions of the formula on the lower burner</span></div></li></ul>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Rhizoma Alismatis Orientalis (Ze Xie)</span>: descending nature which drains turbidity from the Kidneys. Together with Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae (Niu XI), it facilitates movement and guides the actions of the other herbs downward. It also prevents the moistening property of the chief herb from causing stagnation.</span></div></li></ul>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Fructus Citri seu Ponciri (Zhi Ke)</span>: relaxe the Intestines and direct the qi downward, thus helping to unblock the bowels.</span></div></li>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Rhizoma Cimicifugae (Sheng Ma)</span>: raise the clear yang as a subtle inducement to the descent of the turbid yin</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><span style="font-style: italic;">* In combination with Fructus Citri seu Ponciri (Zhi Ke), one ascending and the other descending, the regulation of the Kidney qi mechanism is enhanced.</span><br></span></div></li></ul>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">This formula may be used for Kidney yang and qi deficiency (common in the elderly or debilitated), or Kidney deficiency with blood and fluid deficiency (common after childbirth). The source text notes that constipation due to deficiency should not be treated with harsh purgative like Mirabilitum (Mang Xiao) and Radix et Rhizoma Rhei (Da Huang), but should be treated with tonics. The focus of this formula is thus on warming the Kidneys and moistening the Intestines to facilitate the passage of stool.</span></div>
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<div align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">atonic constipation, degenerative joint disease, and chronic arthritis</span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">For pronounced qi deficiency:</span> Radix Ginseng (Ren Shen) (source text)</span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Fire</span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">: <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Radix Scutellariae Baicalensis (Huang Qin) (source text)</span></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"></span></span></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Severe Kidney deficiency:</span> Radix Rehmaniae Glutinosae Conquitae (Shu Di Huang) (source text)</span></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"></span></span></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Severe deficiency</span>: Omit Fructus Citri seu Ponciri (Zhi Ke) (source text)</span></span></span></div></li>
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<div><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To increase the moistening action in the Intestines</span>: Semen Cannabis Sativae (Huo Ma Ren)</span></span></span></div></li>
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<div><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Severe lower back pain</span>: omit Rhizoma Alismatis Orientalis (Ze Xie) and add Fructus Lycii Chinensis (Gou Qi Zi) and Cortex Eucommiae Ulmoidis (Du Zhong)</span></span></span></div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></span></li></ul>
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<div>Reference: Formulas & Strategies, Dan Bensky and Randall Barolet, Eastland Press, 1990. p.125-126</div>