Chinese: Zhen Wu Tang

English: True Warrrior Decoction

Source: Shanghanlun (Treatise on Cold Damage Diseases)

Pulse: sunken, fine, forceless, slow

Tongue: pale, swollen body with scalloped edges, white slippery coating

Abdomen: shinsuion, shofukufujin, midline lead

Indications: This herbal formula has been used for patients with following health conditions and symptoms:

• Abdominal pain
• Aversion to cold
• Edema
• Difficult urination
• Loose stools
• Light headedness
• Spontaneous sweating

There are many other health conditions that may respond well to this herbal formula, in particular patients exhibiting indicative traditional diagnostic signs and symptoms.

Abdominal pattern (fukusho) of Shinbuto (from Fukusho Kiran, 1800)