What are the benefits of Guizhi Gancao Longgu Muli Decoction?

Guizhi Gancao Longgu Muli Tang belongs to traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions and has a long history in China, which first appeared in Treatise on Febrile Diseases. This prescription is still frequently used for treatment and conditioning today. When symptoms such as irritation, insomnia, palpitations, and pale tongue coating occur, Guizhi Gancao Longgu Muli Tang can be used for treatment and conditioning. What are the effects of Guizhi Gancao Longgu Muli Tang? Let's take a look.

1. Effects of Guizhi Gancao Longgu Muli Tang: Insufficient Heart Yang Syndrome, Irritability, Palpitations, or Insomnia, Chest Congestion, Coldness in Limbs, Shortness of Breath and Spontaneous Sweating, Pale Complexion, Pale Tongue with White Fur, and Weak and Slow Pulse. Guizhi is pungent, sweet, and warm, which can warm and strengthen the Heart Yang, is an essential medicine for warming the Heart and promoting Yang, and also warms and promotes the flow of blood to ensure smooth blood circulation, serving as the principal medicine. Glycyrrhiza, as the adjuvant medicine, can replenish Heart Qi, combine with Guizhi to transform sweetness and warmth into Yang, and warm and nourish the Heart Yang in parallel, which is the basic structure of warming and nourishing the Heart Yang. Additionally, it can strengthen spleen Qi, nourish the middle burner, and promote the production of Qi and blood. Longgu and Muli are heavy and can descend, calm the nerves, and stabilize palpitations, helping to calm the mind and relieve irritability. These four herbs work together to restore Yang Qi, soothe the mind, promote smooth blood flow, and eliminate various symptoms.

2. This prescription is commonly used for the treatment of Insufficient Heart Yang Syndrome. The main symptoms for clinical application include irritability, insomnia, palpitations, shortness of breath and spontaneous sweating, cold limbs, pale tongue with white fur, and weak and slow pulse. Nowadays, it is often used for various causes of arrhythmia (tachycardia, bradycardia, premature contractions, sick sinus syndrome, etc.), as well as cardiac insufficiency and neurosis with symptoms such as irritability and palpitations caused by insufficient Heart Yang and floating Heart Shen.

3. Modifications: For severe coldness in limbs, add Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata to enhance warming Yang; for significant fatigue and shortness of breath, add Ginseng to assist in replenishing Qi; for severe insomnia, add Fructus Schisandrae, Semen Ziziphi Spinosae, and Poria Cocos to nourish the Heart and soothe the nerves; for severe precordial pain, add Rhizoma Chuanxiong and Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae to activate blood circulation and relieve pain.