S6: Insufficiency of Qi

Clinical manifestations/Indications: Neurasthenia, nervous headache, proneness to perspiration, aversion to cold, short breath.

Therapeutic Principle: Invigorating the spleen, replenishing qi, relieving headache, elevating spleen-yang.

Recipe: (Decoction for Smoothening qi and Reinforcing Middle-warmer)*

Main Ingredients: Radix Astragali seu Hedysari, Radix Glycyrrhizae Praeparata, Rhizoma Cimicifugae, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong.

The formula is especially suitable for chronic headache, neurosism, hypotension, and functional disturbance of vegetative nerve. It promotes cellular immune function, excites cerebral cortex, and increases metabolism.

Cautions: It is prohibited for patients with internal heat due to yin deficiency as well as those who have their body fluid and qi impaired after illnesses.