bubble_chart Efficacy

Dispersing wind and clearing heat, ventilating lung and relieving cough.

bubble_chart Indications

External contraction pattern of wind and heat. Symptoms include cough, slight sore throat, mild thirst, low-grade fever, red tongue tip, thin white coating, and floating rapid pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

This formula is a pungent-cool and mild formula, commonly used for the initial stage of wind-warmth, where the pathogen is in the lung-defense level and the exterior heat is still mild. In the formula, Mulberry Leaf and Chrysanthemum Flower are sweet and bitter in nature and cool in property, capable of dispersing wind-heat in the upper energizer and clearing heat from the lung meridian, serving as the sovereign medicinals, and the formula is named after them. The minister medicinal, Mentha, which is pungent and cool, is used to enhance the exterior-releasing effect of Mulberry Leaf and Chrysanthemum Flower. Platycodon Root paired with Bitter Apricot Seed, one ascending and the other descending, can regulate lung qi, relieve cough, and resolve phlegm. Forsythia clears heat and removes toxins, with a dispersing effect, enhancing the ability to disperse wind and clear heat. Reed Rhizome clears heat and promotes fluid production to quench thirst, both serving as assistant medicinals. Liquorice Root harmonizes the various medicinals and, when paired with Platycodon Root, is particularly effective in benefiting the throat, resolving phlegm, and relieving cough, acting as the guiding medicinal.

It can be used for the initial onset of external contraction wind-heat, with symptoms such as cough, slight sore throat, mild thirst, and low-grade fever.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

1. Severe sore throat: add Great Burdock Achene, Lonicera, Belamcanda Rhizome.
2. Severe cough: add Coltsfoot Flower, Trichosanthis Fruit.
3. Blood in phlegm: add lalang grass rhizome, Biota.
4. Severe heat and thirst: add Gypsum, Anemarrhena, smallpox powder.
5. Epidemic conjunctivitis: add Puncturevine Caltrop Fruit, Cassia Seed, Prunella.
6. Severe lung heat: add Skullcap Root.

bubble_chart Modern Application

This formula reduces inflammation and fever, and stops coughing. It is used for common colds, influenza, acute bronchitis, upper respiratory tract infections, coughs, dizziness, and epidemic conjunctivitis.