bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage bubble_chart Efficacy
Raising Yang, releasing flesh, expelling pathogens through the exterior, and removing toxins.
bubble_chart Indications
- Treating Yangming cold-damage disease apoplexy, symptoms include headache, body pain, fever and chills, absence of sweating, thirst, eye pain, dry nose, and inability to lie down.
- Measles not yet erupted or erupted but not fully expressed, symptoms include fever, aversion to wind, headache, body pain, sneezing, cough, red eyes, tearing, thirst, red tongue with dry coating, and floating rapid pulse.
bubble_chart Formula Principles
Cimicifuga Rhizome is sweet, pungent, and slightly cold, promoting eruption and removing toxins; Pueraria Root is sweet, pungent, and neutral, releasing the flesh and outthrusting rashes, promoting fluid production to quench thirst. When these two are paired together, not only is the heat-clearing and flesh-releasing effect doubled, but the eruption-promoting power is also enhanced; Red Peony Root harmonizes the camp and drains heat, and when used together with Liquorice Root , it nourishes yin and harmonizes the middle. Liquorice Root also harmonizes all the herbs, tonifying qi and removing toxins.
bubble_chart Syndrome Differentiation
During a measles outbreak, if a child exhibits sneezing, tearing, fever, dysphoria, and an incomplete rash (with faint spots visible on the head, face, and behind the ears), this prescription can be used.
bubble_chart Formula Modification
- Measles with incomplete eruption: Add cicada slough, Mentha, Schizonepeta to clear heat and outthrust rashes.
- Incomplete eruption of rashes with yin deficiency: Add Scrophularia Root, Ophiopogon Tuber, Anemarrhena.
- Incomplete eruption of rashes with yang deficiency: Combine with Ephedra, Asarum and Aconite Decoction or Ginseng and Aconite Decoction.
- Severe heat with panting: Combine with Ephedra, Bitter Apricot Seed, Gypsum and Licorice Decoction or Purple Snow Bolus.
- Cough: Add White Mulberry Root-Bark, Platycodon Root.
- Sore throat: Add Platycodon Root, Liquorice Root, common andrographis herb.
- Headache: Add Sichuan Lovage Rhizome, Dahurian Angelica.
- Body pain and stiff back: Add Notopterygium, Saposhnikovia Root.
- Shangge with severe heat: Add Skullcap Root, Mentha.
- High fever that does not subside: Add Bupleurum, Skullcap Root, Saposhnikovia Root.
bubble_chart Cautions and Contraindications
This prescription should be used as early as possible. If the toxic heat is excessive and invades inward, this prescription will not be effective.
bubble_chart Modern Application
Influenza, measles, scarlet fever, chickenpox, viral pneumonia, shingles, psoriasis, tonsillitis, skin disease, eye disease.