Category: Sexuality, fertility, musculoskeletal system, joints, skin, liver system, kidney system, pain relief.

Use of the formula according to Traditional Chinese Medicine:

• disperses painful joint obstruction (Bi syndromes from wind, cold and dampness)
• eliminates wind-dampness, cold and heat
• relieves pain
• tonifies the kidneys and liver
• tonifies Qi
• nourishes the blood

Description:

This is a skilfully composed mixture by the famous Tang Dynasty physician Sun Si Miao, which is primarily intended for painful obstructions in the channels and collaterals in a terrain of deficiency, both in the lumbar and lower back area and in the joints. The illness has either lasted for a long time, so that vital substances have been depleted, or it is an otherwise exhausted organism with a deficiency of Qi and blood, especially of the kidneys and liver, which nourish the locomotor tissues. This makes it slightly different from the Tong Yao Zhui Tang formula, which is slightly more intended for acute conditions without the need for Qi energy replenishment.

In Bi Zheng (painful obstruction syndromes), the pain is caused by a blockage in the channels caused by some external climatic factor – usually cold, wind and dampness. Therefore, the pain very often reacts to changes in the weather. This "external pathogen" enters the organism all the more easily because what should be nourishing it – the liver and kidneys – is weakened. In addition to chronic and often dull pain, the patient also feels weakness in the lower back or knees. A common symptom is also morning stiffness and a feeling of heaviness in the affected area, which often dominate more than the actual pain.

Indications:

• joint pain from external pathogens (Bi Zheng) with deficiency of the liver and kidneys, Qi and blood
• chronic lower back pain associated with deficiency of the liver and kidneys, Qi and blood
• tailbone pain
• feeling of heaviness and pain fixed to a spot in the lower back and lower limb area
• pain reacting to the weather
• feeling of morning stiffness and rigidity
• aching during prolonged standing
• feeling of weakness in the lower back
• intolerance to cold
• improvement of symptoms with heat

Modern use:

• rheumatoid arthritis
• chronic lumbago
• sciatica
• lumbago
• herniated disc
• SI (sacroiliac) joint problem
• hepatitis
• skin diseases
• impotence

Tongue:

• pale with a white coating

Pulse:

• xi (thin)
• ruo (weak)
• chi (slow)

Contraindications:

• painful obstructions (Bi syndromes) associated with significant excess, e.g. damp-heat (Shi Re) – the condition is a weak pulse or the prevalence of stiffness over severe pain

Note:

For the mixture to work well, it must be used long-term.

It is effective as a basic mixture for all types of painful obstructions and atrophy of the lower limbs.

Due to its good function of opening the channels and collaterals (luo), it is also used in modern times for other types of blockages related to Qi and blood deficiency associated with their obstruction, such as hepatitis, skin diseases (psoriasis, scleroderma) or impotence.

Composition of the formula: