[Preparation method and dosage]

The above 4 ingredients, use 1 shēng of water, boil rice and make soup, remove dregs. Administer while warm 200 ml each time, three times a day.

[Efficacy]

clearing heat and promoting fluid production, consumptive thirst and relieving troubles.

[Indications]

Excessive Yangming heat, dry mouth and tongue, polydipsia leading to drinking, red face aversion to heat, profuse sweating, strong and slippery pulse.

[Prescription]

This prescription treats the excess heat syndrome/pattern in which external contraction of cold evil enters the body and transforms into heat, or warm evil enters the qi aspect. Gypsum in the prescription is Xingan Great Cold (24th solar term), which can clear the lungs and stomach, release flesh and penetrate heat, so that the heat in the lungs and stomach can be dispersed internally and externally; Anemarrhena Helps Gypsum to clear away excess heat in the lungs and stomach. Although the nature and taste are bitter and cold, the texture is moist without the disadvantage of resolving dryness. The combination of the two medicinals, mutual reinforcement, is useful, resolving depression and It is particularly powerful in discharging heat; Liquorice Root and rice benefit the stomach and promote fluid production, making the Great Cold (24th solar term) medicine not harmful to the stomach.

[Key points of syndrome differentiation]

1. Yangming is full of heat (qi aspect means real heat).
2. Dry tongue and polydipsia.
3. Aversion to heat.
4. profuse sweating out.
5. The pulse is strong and powerful.

Based on severe fever, profuse sweating, great thirst, and strong pulse.

[Addition and subtraction]

1. qi deficiency consumptive thirst: add Ginseng as Ginseng White Tiger Decoction.
2. dampness warm disease heavy body: add Atractylodes Rhizome. NameWhite Tiger Decoction Plus Atractylodes.
3. warm malaria joint pain: add Cinnamon Twig, named white tiger Cinnamon Twig Decoction.
4. Resheng: add Lonicera, Forsythia, Isatis Root.
5. Stomatitis: combined with Redness-Removing Powder.
6. Alternating chills and fever, more hot than cold: add Bupleurum and Skullcap Root.
7. constipation: Add Rhubarb Rhizoma, Mirabilite.
8. Gum swelling and pain: add Cimicifuga Rhizome, Coptis Rhizome, Skullcap Root, Dahurian Angelica > .
9. stomach qi ascending counterflow, epigastric stuffiness: add Pineilia, Bamboo Shavings.

[Attention to taboos]

1. It should not be used if exterior syndrome/pattern has not been solved or if yang brightness fu-organ syndrome/pattern has been seen.
2. Qi-deficiency fever complexion is pale and the pulse is strong but weak when pressed heavily, it belongs to qi-deficiency fever and should not be used.

[Modern application]

pneumonia, measles, encephalitis, diabetes, wind-dampness arthritis, summerheat stroke, oral ulcer, gingivitis, stye, myocarditis, conjunctivitis, influenza, diphtheria, scarlet fever, burns, eczema, psoriasis, skin Itching and intestinal heat.