Gui Ban
Testudinis Plastrum
sweet, salty, cold
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Tonify Yin
CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Fever
- Night sweats
- Dizziness
- Tinnitus
- Bone pain
- Tremors
- Facial spasms
- Weakness in the legs
- Low back pain
- Musculoskeletal underdevelopment
- Vaginal discharge
- Uterine bleeding
- Anxiety
- Insomnia
- Poor memory
- Sores
- Ulcers
Gui Ban is sweet, salty, and cold. It enters the heart, liver, and kidney systems to nourish yin and reduce heat. Gui Ban improves endocrine function and can be used to treat children that present with poor bone development or babies that present with fontanels that have not yet closed.
Channels: heart, liver, kidney
COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL POSSIBILITIES:
- Fever
- Developmental disorders
- Tinnitus
- Dizziness
- Orthostatic hypotension
- Malaria
- Leukorrhea
- Ulcers
- Sores
- Muscle spasms
- Cough
Formulas:
- Da Bu Yin Wan
- Da Ding Feng Zhi
- Gu Jing Wan
- Gui Lu Er Xian Jiao
- Hu Qian Wan
- Qing Re Gu Jing Tang
- Rou Fu Bao Yuan Tang
- San Jia Fu Mai Tang
- Sang Piao Xiao San
- Zhen Gan Xi Feng Tang
- Zuo Gui Wan
Contraindications: do not prescribe Gui Ban to pregnant patients or to patients that present with patterns in the stomach of cold-dampness
Zoo Image: a turtle in a castle tower with hearts is lowering a yang anchor with cracked fontanel, the tower had blood splats and is surrounded by a blood mote, there are chong and ren ladders and a conjoined turtle with bleeding hearts is waiting