What are the ingredients of Xiao Chaihu Decoction?

Xiao Chaihu Decoction is a traditional Chinese medicine that is said to be able to treat many diseases. However, in real life, what exactly belongs to Xiao Chaihu Decoction? In clinical practice, what traditional Chinese medicine ingredients does the Xiao Chaihu Decoction used generally contain? What is the effect of Xiao Chaihu Decoction itself? Let's take a closer look at the relevant knowledge, look at the components of Xiao Chaihu Decoction, and know the most important point about how to use Xiao Chaihu Decoction to treat diseases.

Xiao Chaihu Decoction is a Chinese herbal preparation. Generally, the ingredients of Xiao Chaihu Decoction are many medicines, not just Xiao Chaihu. For example, the components of Xiao Chaihu Decoction in our common Chinese herbal preparations all include half a catty; three liang; three liang (6g); washed, half a liter (9g); cut, three liang (9g); split, twelve pieces (4 pieces). Xiao Chaihu Decoction has the function of harmonizing and resolving problems. It contains Pinellia, ginseng, and licorice, plus Scutellaria baicalensis, ginger, and jujube. This prescription is used for Shaoyang diseases.

Shaoyang disease syndrome. The evil is half superficial and half interior, with symptoms including alternating chills and fever, fullness and pain in the chest and flanks, silence and loss of appetite, irritability and nausea, bitter taste in the mouth, dry throat, dizziness, thin white tongue coating, and a stringy pulse. 2) Women with typhoid fever have heat entering the blood chamber. The menstruation stops, and there are occasional attacks of chills and fever; or there are internal injuries and miscellaneous diseases such as malaria, jaundice, etc., and the above Shaoyang disease symptoms are present. Take the above seven ingredients, add 1 dou 2 liters of water, boil and take out 6 liters, remove the dregs and boil again, take out 3 liters, take 1 liter while warm, three times a day.

In the formula, Bupleurum chinense clears the evil in the Shaoyang meridian's semi-exterior and resolves it from the outside, so it is the main ingredient; Scutellaria baicalensis clears the heat in the Shaoyang meridian's semi-interior and is the secondary ingredient; ginseng and licorice replenish qi and strengthen the body, while Pinellia ternata descends the adverse qi and harmonizes the middle, so it is the adjuvant; ginger helps Pinellia ternata harmonize the stomach, while jujube helps ginseng and licorice replenish qi. Ginger and jujube are used together to harmonize the Ying and Wei systems. All these medicines are used together to achieve the effect of harmonizing Shaoyang.

We must have some knowledge and understanding of the above-mentioned composition of Xiao Chaihu Decoction, so that we can clearly understand what the composition of Xiao Chaihu Decoction is. Only in this way can we correctly and accurately use Xiao Chaihu Decoction to treat certain diseases in the body. We must pay attention to this.