**Pills for Calming the Liver, Relieving Wind, Soothing the Mind, and Opening the Orifices**

General Effects: Calms the mind, harmonizes the liver, calms the yang, regulates the meridians.

Functions: Treats high fever, convulsions, stroke-induced unconsciousness, delirium, depression, restlessness, dizziness, tinnitus.

Categorization:

• Liver-Calming and Wind-Relieving Pills: Treats excessive liver yang, internal wind syndrome (epilepsy, hypertension, epilepsy, wind-stroke headache with stiffness, spasms).

• Mind-Soothing Pills: Calms the mind, induces sleep. Treats arrhythmia, insomnia, manic behavior.

• Aromatic Pills for Opening the Orifices: Clears the mind, eliminates phlegm, calms the mind, stimulates, opens the senses, opens the orifices on the body. Treats wind-stroke, epilepsy leading to coma, speechlessness, unconsciousness.

Specific Effects:

Liver-Calming and Wind-Relieving Pills:

• Calms the liver, calms the yang: Treats dizziness, headache, blurry vision.

• Calms convulsions: Treats convulsive seizures, spasms.

Mind-Soothing Pills:

• If heart fire is strong: Combine with heat-clearing and fire-purging herbs.

• If phlegm is abundant: Combine with phlegm-transforming herbs.

• If blood is deficient: Combine with blood-enriching herbs.

Orifice-Opening Pills:

• Properties: Aromatic (containing essential oils), pungent, warm.

• Note: The medication is dispersing in nature and can easily harm the vital energy, so it should not be used for long periods. It can be combined with many other herbs. Use in pill or powder form, do not decoct together with other herbs. Do not use in cases of prolapse (stroke, open mouth, outstretched hands, loss of consciousness, profuse sweating, involuntary urination and defecation…).

Liver-Calming and Wind-Relieving:

• Internal Wind (Liver Wind Syndrome): Caused by high fever leading to seizures, liver and kidney yin deficiency, liver yang rising causing wind, or due to liver blood deficiency not nourishing the tendons and muscles leading to seizures.

• Calms the Yang: It allows the yang fire to converge inward and become latent, preventing it from flaring up outward.

• Opens the Orifices: When heat pathogen obstructs the heart envelope, the clear orifices are blocked, causing unconsciousness. This medication has the ability to clear the blockage of the orifices.

Herbs in the Formula:

Liver-Calming and Wind-Relieving Pills:

• Uncaria (Cat’s Claw): Uncaria sp. Rubiaceae

• BPD: Hooked stems.

• TPHH: Alkaloid.

• CD: Treats headache, dizziness, epilepsy, convulsive seizures, headache, dizziness, hypertension, blurry vision, insomnia.

• Note: The ingredient that lowers blood pressure will be destroyed if decoction lasts longer than 20 minutes.

• White Silkworm Pupae: Silkworm that has died from a type of bacteria, becoming hard and white like lime.

• CD: Treats liver wind syndrome manifesting as headache, dizziness, high fever, seizures, unilateral headache. Treats sore throat, acute tonsillitis, loss of voice, night crying in children. Treats sores, boils, or blemishes on the face.

• Bạch Tật Lê: Tribulus terrestris Zygophyllaceae

• BPD: Ripe fruits with spines.

• TPHH: Alkaloid, saponin, essential oils.

• CD: Treats headache, red eyes with excessive tears, wind-induced itching buildup, milk stasis. Treats back pain, weak sperm, weakness, mouth sores. Treats fullness and distention in the chest and ribs, milk not descending. Headache, dizziness, hypertension. Acute conjunctivitis, desensitization.

• Note: Bạch Tật Lê has the effect of stimulating sexual desire and preventing kidney stone formation, but is toxic to the liver, kidneys, and nervous system.

• Gastrodia: Gastrodia elata Orchidaceae

• BPD: Dried rhizomes.

• TPHH: Gastrodin, vanillin and 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde.

• CT: Treats dizziness, blurry vision. Treats convulsive seizures in children, hemiplegia due to stroke. Treats cough and phlegm. Treats joint pain, nerve pain.

• Note: Vanillin and 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde have fat-reducing effects.

• Lạc Tiên: Passiflora foetida Passifloraceae

• BPD: Whole plant.

• TPHH: Alkaloid.

• CT: Treats palpitations, anxiety, insomnia. Use leaves to make soup or decoct separately or combined with Lotus leaf, Vông Nem leaf. Cools the liver, treats thirst or red, sore eyes.

• Stephania: Stephania glabra Menispermaceae

• BPD: Tuber.

• TPHH: Alkaloid.

• CD: Treats nervous system weakness or epilepsy, epilepsy. Treats peptic ulcers, dysentery, toothache, nerve pain, pain from trauma. Treats respiratory tract infections, pharyngitis, chronic bronchitis, tuberculosis cough.

• Note: 11-hydroxypalmatine has anti-diabetic effects. Alkaloids have antibacterial effects.

• Jujube Seed: Ziziphus mauritiana Rhamnaceae

• BPD: Seeds.

• TPHH: Saponin, betulinin.

• CD: Treats palpitations, insomnia, dizziness. Treats neurasthenia. Fruit nourishes the liver and kidneys, lubricates blood, generates body fluids.

• Platycladus Seed: Platycladus orientalis Cupressaceae

• BPD: Seeds.

• TPHH: Saponin, fat.

• CD: Treats palpitations, excessive sweating, insomnia, nightmares, forgetfulness. Treats constipation, hemorrhoids, constipation, bloody stools. Treats epilepsy or night crying in children.

• Lotus Heart: Nelumbo nucifera Nelumbonaceae

• BPD: Sprouts.

• TPHH: Tannin, alkaloid.

• CD: Treats seminal emission, palpitations, insomnia, delirium.

• Vông Nem: Erythrina indica Fabaceae

• BPD: Leaves without petioles.

• TPHH: Alkaloid, saponin.

• CD: Treats insomnia. Apply to boils, promotes rapid wound healing.

• Polygala: Polygala sp., Polygalaceae.

• BPD: Roots without core.

• TPHH: Saponin.

• CD: Treats insomnia, forgetfulness, palpitations. Treats tinnitus, blurred vision. Treats cough with phlegm, dyspnea.

• Note: Do not process in iron utensils. Roast with honey to reduce irritation.

• Poria: Poria.

• BPD: The part of the fungus that parasitizes the roots of Pine, with pine roots penetrating through it.

• Xương Bồ:

• Water Acorus: Acorus calamus L. Araceae family

• Stone Acorus: Acorus gramineus Soland. Araceae family

• BPD: Rhizomes are used.

• TPHH: Essential oils.

• CT: Treats wind-stroke induced speechlessness, sunstroke. Treats asthma, chronic bronchitis. Treats chills, abdominal pain, fullness, indigestion, gastritis, peptic ulcer, promotes appetite, eliminates nausea and vomiting. Treats rapid heartbeat, arrhythmia, palpitations, insomnia, depression. Treats tinnitus, deafness.

• An Tức Hương: Banyan tree resin.

• TPHH: Essential oils.

• CT: Treats wind-stroke induced speechlessness, sunstroke. Treats asthma, chronic bronchitis. Treats chills, abdominal pain, fullness, indigestion, gastritis, peptic ulcer, promotes appetite, eliminates nausea and vomiting. Treats rapid heartbeat, arrhythmia, palpitations, insomnia, depression. Treats tinnitus, deafness.

• Tạo Giác: Gledischia autralis Fabaceae

• BPD: Fruit of the Bồ kết tree.

• TPHH: Saponin.

• CT: Treats wind-stroke induced speechlessness, phlegm stuck in the throat. Treats nasal congestion. Promotes lactation, laxative.

Herb Groups:

• Liver-Calming, Mind-Soothing group: Gastrodia, Uncaria, Cassia Seed, Poria, Dạ giao đằng.

• Heat-Clearing, Fire-Descending group: Chi tử.

• Heat-Clearing, Dampness-Drying group: Hoàng cầm.

• Blood-Activating group: Ngưu tất, Ích mẫu.

• Yang-Tonifying group: Đỗ trọng.

• Wind and Dampness-Eliminating group: Tang ký sinh.

• Anti-asthma: Rhizome extract has anti-asthma effects.