bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

Grind into powder, take 18 grams (6 qian) each time, decoct with fresh Reed Rhizome decoction; for severe cases, take every 2 hours, 3 times during the day and once at night; for mild cases, take every 3 hours, twice during the day and once at night; or take 1/3 of the above-mentioned herbs, decocted with water twice to make two doses, take two doses in one day.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Releasing exterior with pungent-cool, clearing heat and removing toxin.

bubble_chart Indications

At the onset of warm disease, the exterior heat pattern presents with fever, slight aversion to cold, absence of sweating or inhibited sweating, headache, cough, sore throat, thirst with a desire to drink, red edges and tip of the tongue, thin white or thin yellow coating, and a floating and rapid pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

This formula is suitable for external contraction of wind-heat and is one of the representative formulas for releasing the exterior with pungent-cool. In the formula, Lonicera and Forsythia clear heat and remove toxins, with a penetrating effect, thus achieving the function of releasing the exterior with pungent-cool. The combination of Mentha and Great Burdock Achene releases the exterior with pungent-cool and benefits the throat. Fermented Soybean and Schizonepeta disperse wind and expel pathogens through the exterior. Although they are pungent and warm, they are warm without being drying, and when used together with heat-clearing medicinals, they enhance the effect of releasing the exterior with pungent-cool. Lophatherum Herb clears heat from the upper energizer, enhancing the heat-clearing and toxin-removing effects of Lonicera and Forsythia. Platycodon Root ventilates the lungs and benefits the throat, and when combined with Liquorice Root, it also resolves phlegm and relieves cough. Reed Rhizome clears heat and promotes fluid production to quench thirst. Liquorice Root harmonizes all the medicinals.

This formula is more effective when used in spring and summer.

bubble_chart Pattern Identification

1. fever.
2. thirst.
3. sore throat.
4. cough.
5. floating and rapid pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

1. Severe heat with swollen and sore throat: add Isatis Root, Skullcap Root, Gypsum, common andrographis herb.
2. Exterior pattern is obvious: add cicada slough, Stiff Silkworm, Fistular Onion Stalk.
3. Severe irritability due to interior heat: add Gardenia, Anemarrhena, Skullcap Root.
4. Severe thirst: add smallpox powder, Gypsum.
5. Severe cough: add Bitter Apricot Seed, Coltsfoot Flower.
6. Chest tightness and poor appetite: add Patchouli, Curcuma Root.
7. Lung qi failing in dispersion cough: combine with Ephedra, Bitter Apricot Seed, Gypsum and Licorice Decoction.

bubble_chart Modern Application

Upper respiratory tract infection, influenza, acute bronchitis, pneumonia, acute tonsillitis, measles, drug-induced dermatitis, enterovirus, urticaria, eczema, parotitis.