Chi wan

Chi wan

fu ling 12 ban xia 12 fu zi 6 xi xin 3

For cold qi reverse flow, chi wan is indicated.

Warm pungent support of yang to treat water and phlegm accumulation with warm pungent herbs. This can be in upper, middle or lower jiao.

Fu zi and xi xin are often used together to warm, disperses and move water. They are working together with warm pungent ban xia and sweet fu ling in warming and clearing excess water.

Fu zi, Aconiti radix lateralis praeparata is pungent dispersing of liver blood and the ministerial fire in the san jiao. It is pungent dispersing of the heart and kidneys. It is pungent dispersing of the tai yang channels. It is pungent dispersing of excess water.

Xi xin, Asari herba is pungent dispersing of the liver blood and the ministerial fire. It is pungent dispersing of the heart, kidneys and lungs. It is pungent dispersing of the tai yang channel.

Ban xia, Pinelliae rhizoma is pungent dispersing of the liver blood and the ministerial fire in the san jiao. It is pungent dispersing of the cold and dampness in the stomach domain, spleen and lung. It transforms tai yin damp phlegm generated from excessive and stagnant cold dampness and counteracts nausea and adverse flow.

Fu ling, Poria is sweet and neutral. It drains fluids but is not bitter. Fu ling is tonifying the stomach domain, spleen, kidney and bladder to move excess fluids. It moves more than it tonifies.