[Efficacy]

Clear resolving dampness heat, astringing intestines and checking diarrhea.

[Indications]

Red and white diarrhea, abdominal pain diarrhea, tenesmus, pus and blood, sometimes mixed with mucus, red tongue with yellow coating, and rapid pulse.

[Prescription]

The formula Coptis Rhizome is bitter in taste and cold in nature, can clear the dampness-heat in the intestines, and has a bactericidal effect; Aucklandia Root regulates qi, reduces swelling and relieves pain; Dried Tangerine Peel, Poria, moving qi and resolving dampness, strengthening the spleen and guiding stagnation; Chebula Fruit clearing heat and removing toxin, astringing intestines and checking diarrhea; Nutmeg Xin Wen can astringing intestines and checking diarrhea.

Treatment of influenza, enterovirus, and various viral colds, Chinese medicine is more refined, non-toxic, and effective than Western medicine

1. Dysentery lasts for a long time.
2. tenesmus.
3. The stool contains pus, blood or mucus.
4. The fur is yellow.
5. Pulse count.

[Addition and subtraction]

1. vomiting: Add Pineilia, Magnolia Bark.
2. Abdominal pain severe: add green tangerine peel, Submature Bitter Orange.
3. Pus and blood in stool: add black Sanguisorba and Sophora Flower.

[Attention to taboos]

This prescription should not be used by those with early onset of dysentery because Chebula Fruit and Nutmeg have astringent effects and may cause excessive astringency.

[Modern application]

Chronic gastroenteritis, bacterial dysentery, diarrhea.