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Systemic lupus erythmatosus & Chinese herbal medicine

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, May, 2004 by Bob Flaws

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Rx: Qing Wen Bai Du Yin Jia Jian (Clear the Scourge & Vanquish Toxins Drink with Additions & Subtractions).

Ingredients: Uncooked Gypsum Fibrosum (Shi Gao), 60g, Cornu Bubali (Shui Niu Jiao), 30g, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae Aspheloidis (Zhi Mu), Rhizoma Coptidis Chinensis (Huang Lian), Radix Scutellariae Baicalensis (Huang Qin), Fructus Gardeniae Jasminoidis (Zhi Zi), Fructus Forsythiae Suspensae (Lian Qiao), and Radix Scrophulariae Ningpoensis (Xuan Shen), 15g each, uncooked Radix Rehmanniae (Sheng Di), Cortex Radicis Moutan (Dan Pi), Radix Rubrus Paeoniae Lactiflorae (Chi Shao), and Radix Angelicae Sinensis (Dang Gui), 20g each, and Folium Bambusae (Zhu Ye), Radix Platycodi Grandiflori (Jie Geng), and Radix Glycyrrhizae (Gan Cao), 9g each.

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Additions & subtractions: For dry, bound stools, add nine grams of Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei (Da Huang), decocted later. For high fever which will not recede or essence will symptoms, add 0.3-0.5 grams of Cornu Antelopis Saigatatarici (Ling Yang Jiao), swallowed down with the decoction. For low-grade fever which will not recede, add 15 grams each of Radix Stellariae Dichotomae (Yin Chai Hu) and Cortex Radicis Lycii Chinensis (Di Gu Pi). For bleeding, add 9-20 grams each of Nodus Rhizomatis Nelumbinis Nuciferae (Ou Jie), Rhizoma Imperatae Cylindricae (Bai Mao Gen), Herba Agrimoniae Pilosae (Xian He Cao), and/or Cacumen Biotae Orientalis (Ce Bai Ye) depending on the site and cause of the bleeding. If damp heat is marked with thick, slimy tongue fur, add nine grams each of Rhizoma Atractylodis (Cang Zhu) and Rhizoma Acori Graminei (Shi Chang Pu) and delete the Sheng Di, Xuan Shen, and Zhi Mu. For arthralgia, add nine grams each of Radix Et Rhizoma Notopterygii (Qiang Huo), Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae (Qin Jiao), and Radix Angelicae Pubescentis (Du Huo). For severe thirst, add 12 grams each of Tuber Ophiopogonis Japonici (Mai Men Dong), Herba Dendrobii (Shi Hu), and Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati (Yu Zhu). For profuse erythema, petechiae, or purpurae, add 12 grams each of Radix Lithospermi Seu Arnebiae (Zi Cao), Flos Immaturus Sophorae Japonicae (Huai Hua Mi), and Flos Campsitis (Ling Xiao Hua).

2. Wind damp heat impediment pattern

Main symptoms: Early stage disease with profuse, severe joint pain, especially in the fingers, toes, ankles, and wrists, migrating pain of several joints, fever, dry throat, oral thirst, sore, aching muscles, weakness of the limbs, possible joint swelling, a red tongue with yellow and/or slimy fur, and a bowstring, slipery pulse

Rx: Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang Jia Jian (Angelica Pubescens Decoction with Additions & Subtractions)

Ingredients: Uncooked Gypsum Fibrosum (Shi Gao), 30g, Ramulus Loranthi Seu Visci (Sang Ji Sheng), 15-30g, Cortex Erythinae (Hai Tong Pi), 15g, and Radix Et Rhizoma Notopterygii (Qiang Huo), Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae (Qin Jiao), Radix Clematidis Chinensis (Wei Ling Xian), Radix Ledebouriellae Divaricatae (Fang Feng), Radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae (Fang Ji), and Rhizoma Anemarrhenae Aspheloidis (Zhi Mu), 9g each.

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Systemic lupus erythmatosus & Chinese herbal medicine

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, May, 2004 by Bob Flaws

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