Experience of Chen Baotian in Clinical Application of Xiao Chaihu Decoction and Guizhi Decoction
10.13359/j.cnki.gzxbtcm.2025.04.029
- VernacularTitle:陈宝田运用小柴胡汤、桂枝汤经验
- Author:
Yaqiu LONG
1
;
Jiawei YUAN
Author Information
1. 南方医科大学南方医院白云分院中医科,广东 广州 510420
- Keywords:
Xiao Chaihu Decoction;
Chai Ling Decoction;
Guizhi Decoction;
Guizhi Plus Longgu Muli Decoction;
Chaihu Guizhi Decoction;
Anshen Prescription;
Chen Baotian
- From:
Journal of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2025;42(4):996-1000
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the experience of Professor Chen Baotian,a national renowned Chinese medical practitioner,in clinical application of Xiao Chaihu Decoction,Guizhi Decoction and their combined prescriptions.Xiao Chaihu Decoction not only has the actions of harmonizing pathogenic cold and heat in the exterior and interior,but also is effective on regulating the function of viscera and maintaining the balance ofqi-blood and yin-yang.Guizhi Decoction is not only good at harmonizing nutrient qi and defensive qi,and releasing muscles and expelling wind,but also has the efficacy of harmonizing spleen-stomach and nutrient-blood.The combined prescriptions derived from Xiao Chaihu Decoction include Er Xiao Decoction,San Xiao Decoction,Xiao Si Wu Decoction and Chai Ling Decoction;the combined prescription derived from Guizhi Decoction is Guizhi plus Longgu Muli Decoction;the combined prescription of Xiao Chaihu Decoction and Guizhi Decoction is Chaihu Guizhi Decoction,and Anshen Prescription is the derived prescription of Chaihu Guizhi Decoction.As a representative of the combined prescriptions of Zhang Zhongjing,Chaihu Guizhi Decoction integrates various harmonizing therapies,and it is a model of flexible application of classical formulas on the basis of syndrome differentiation.Chaihu Guizhi Decoction should be used by corresponding to the pathogenesis while not to the disease,and the medication of the herbs is flexibly modified according to the accompanied symptoms.In clinic,Chaihu Guizhi Decoction can be applied by modification in treating patients with discomforts in the region along the meridians of taiyang and shaoyang,or complicated with dysfunction of the liver and gallbladder,and the spleen and stomach,which exerts the pathogenesis of disharmony between yin and yang,dysfunction of qi transformation in triple energizer,and disharmony between nutritive qi and defensive qi.Based on years of the application of the classical prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine in clinic,Professor Chen Baotian has formulated a number of combined prescriptions indicated for various diseases,and the combined prescriptions will supply more clinical choices for treatment with modern Chinese medicine.
