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Medication chart: Vomiting, coughing, sore throat, jaundice. From a manuscript copy ofShanghan diandian jin shu(The Gold-dust Book of Cold Damage) dated '1st year of the Zhengyuan reign period of the Yuan dynasty' (1341), section entitledShanghan diandian jin yongyao muji(Cold Damage Gold-Dust Repertory of Medication).The text states: Vomiting illnesses are normally treated with Five-Drug powder (wu ling san) or decoction of bamboo leaf and gypsum. For vomiting illnesses with cold, the usual treatment is Four Retrograde/Cold Extremities decoction (sini tang), evodia decoction (wuzhuyu tang), etc.Coughing involving the Greater Yang channel (taiyang jing) is usually treated with lesser Blue-Green Dragon decoction (xiao qingling tang), Minor Bupleurum Decoction (xiao chaihu tang), etc. If the Lesser Yin channel is involved, the usual treatment is True Warrior decoction (zhen wu tang), Four Retrograde/Cold Extremities Decoction (sini tang), etc.For sore throat due to cold damage to the kidney, the usual treatment is pinellia, cassia and liquorice decoction (banxia guigan tang) or Four Retrograde/Cold Extremities decoction (sini tang). For Yang poison syndrome sore throat, cohosh decoction (shengma tang), cimicifuga), rhubarb decoction, Cape jasmine seed decoction (zhizi ren tang), etc., is used. For Lesser Yin (shaoyin) syndrome sore throat, liquorice decoction, etc. is used.For jaundice due to cold damage, Five-Drug powder with capillary artemisia (wu ling san jia yinchen), capillary artemisia and wormwood decoction (yinchen hao tang) decoction, or ephedra, forsythia and adsuki bean decoction (mahuang lianqiao chi xiaodou tang) is used. If there are symptoms of madness, this is evidence of either Yang poison, blood amassment (xuxue) or fire malignity (huoxie).
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