Source of prescription: Sini decoction, from Han Zhongjing's Treatise on Febrile Diseases.
Usage and dosage: take three flavors, three liters of water, one liter of water and two, remove me, and then take it at different temperatures. A strong person can have one aconite and three or two dried ginger. Modern usage: decoction.
Fang Jie: The syndrome of this prescription is caused by the failure of heart and kidney and the intersection of yin and cold, also known as yang deficiency and cold Jue syndrome. Yang failure can't warm the whole body at the end of the four seasons, so lying in the cold, cold limbs, colder than elbows and knees; Yang deficiency cannot stimulate blood circulation, so the pulse is fine.
The aconite in the prescription is raw, very spicy and hot. It walks, but it doesn't keep. Especially good at warming kidney-yang, it is the monarch drug for restoring yang and dispelling cold. Dried ginger is pungent and hot, nourishing it, warming the middle and dispelling cold, and it is a minister medicine. The two go hand in hand, and the smell is strong, which makes the power of warming yang more grand. Therefore, the predecessors said that "aconite is not spicy or ginger".
The compatibility of aconite and ginger focuses on warming and tonifying kidney-yang to replenish congenital. In the process of soothing, roasted licorice can not only relieve the dryness and heat of ginger, but also make it harmless to yin. Moreover, it is compatible with dried ginger, and the key point is to warm and tonify spleen and yang to tonify the day after tomorrow. On the whole, this prescription is named "Sini Decoction" because the medicine is simple and effective, pungent and hot, which causes the yang qi to collapse and the four evils to warm themselves.
Modern research
Modern clinical reports can also be found in the treatment of edema complicated with heart failure, bradyarrhythmia, viral myocarditis in children, hypertension in the elderly, mixed hyperlipidemia, simple syncope, ischemic stroke and other symptoms of yang deficiency and cold excess.
Reference to the above content: Sinitang-Baidu Encyclopedia