What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the Ten Perfections Soup? Is it its composition or function? You will definitely think that the ten great tonic soups must be some kidney aphrodisiac drugs, treating sexual function diseases. If that's what you think, then you're so wrong!
Anyone who knows a little bit about Chinese medicine should know the Four Gentlemen's Soup and the Four Things Soup. The Four Gentlemen's Soup is a formula for replenishing qi and strengthening the spleen, and the treatment is the disease of spleen and stomach deficiency. Including shortness of breath, weakness, low voice, pale face, lack of food and stool and other diseases. The four things soup is a formula for blood replenishment and blood, and the treatment is the disease of camp blood deficiency, including dizziness caused by blood deficiency, palpitations and insomnia, menstrual irregularities or menstrual closure, umbilical and abdominal pain, and symptoms such as no color of lips and claws.
In Chinese medicine, there is also a formula called Eight Zhen Tang, which has a total of eight herbs, and these eight herbs are from the four herbs of the Four Gentlemen's Soup and the Four Tastes of the Four Things Soup. Therefore, its role can also be imagined, that is, the combination of the two parties, tonify qi and blood, and treat the two deficiencies of qi and blood.
And this mysterious ten-fold soup is composed of eight zhen soup plus cinnamon and astragalus. Cinnamon is a warm medicine, it tastes spicy, sweet, hot, returned to the kidneys, spleen, heart, liver meridians, can replenish the fire to help the yang, ignite the fire to return to the yuan, disperse the cold and relieve pain and warm the meridians. The purpose of adding cinnamon to this side does not belong to the above four effects, but only to take its warm nature, warm and yang qi, to encourage the growth of qi and blood. Astragalus is a medicine for tonic qi, it tastes sweet, slightly warm, return to the spleen, lung meridian, astragalus has many effects, such as tonic yang, solid table antiperspiration, blood nourishment, stagnation paralysis, toxin and pus discharge, etc. Astragalus has a characteristic, he can both replenish qi and raise qi, and the lifting here includes both lifting and sinking yang qi, and also including raising qi to the surface of the body. Therefore, astragalus can not only cure the evidence of lung and temper deficiency, but also cure the self-sweat of qi deficiency, and can treat many evidences of qi deficiency.
When the decoction is also filled with ginger and dates, the role of ginger is also in Wenyang, and the role of jujube is to strengthen the spleen and replenish qi.
Therefore, the Ten Great Tonic Soup is the formula for treating the weakness of qi and blood. It's just that the weakness of qi and blood here is more serious than the weakness of qi and blood of Bazhen Tang. The human body is originally a whole, and the weakness of qi and blood will affect the balance of yin and yang in the body. Moreover, long-term weakness of qi and blood will be accompanied by the symptoms of yang deficiency. Coupled with cinnamon warm yang, it is to take its yang and yin long meaning, replenish blood, yang at the same time, but also make the yin grow, in order to maintain the balance in the body.
The Ten Great Tonic Soup is to treat the disease of deficiency of qi and blood, supplementing the qi and blood of the whole body, but focusing on the lungs, spleen and kidneys. It's not what everyone thinks, it's just a kidney aphrodisiac, and don't make jokes when you see this formula again in the future. This is a good recipe for a serious cure.
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