[Herb-students] Ren Shen Bai Du San

[Fernando Bernall]

Al,

I still wonder about the high fever with no sweating in light that this rx is for an
exterior pattern with underlying deficiency as Stephanie has pointed out. Could there
be a mistake?

Fernando

Al Stone wrote:

> > Stephanie Duggins wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone  know why the symptomatology for this formula would
> > > include a high fever? It is a formula for releasing the exterior
> > > with a pre-existing qi vacuity. Thanks in advance for any insights.
>
> Fernando Bernall wrote:
>
> > Perhaps the fact that this formula was originally used to treat
> > children, may account for the high fever.
>
> According to one source (namely the book on formulas that one of my
> teachers and I created) this formula was in fact originally designed for
> children who's upright qi was not yet fully develped.
>
> Here are some other fun factz about this formula's inclusion of Ren Shen...
>
> 1) For children as mentioned above.
> 2) Ren Shen tonifies the wei qi to prevent further invasion of exogenous
> factors (apparently not necessarily the gui zhi tang syndrome of partial sweating)
> 3) Ren Shen nourishes the yin which supports the production of sweat
> 4) Ren Shen protects against damage to the Yuan source qi as a result of
> the sweating as mentioned above.
>
> -al.
>
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> Al Stone L.Ac.
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