bubble_chart Efficacy

Clearing bone heat and reducing steaming, nourishing yin and subduing yang.

bubble_chart Indications

Deficiency fatigue, yin deficiency with effulgent fire, steaming bone fever, emaciation. Symptoms include steaming bone fever in the afternoon or at night, fever in the palms and soles, irritability, night sweats, dry mouth and throat, dry stools, scanty dark urine, red tongue with little coating, and a thin, rapid pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

In the formula, Starwort Root can clear heat from the bone marrow and treat deficiency fatigue with steaming bone fever; Chinese Wolfberry Root-bark, Neopicrorhiza, and Anemarrhena all enter the yin aspect and clear latent heat internally; Sweet Wormwood and Gentian both have the function of dispersing pungently, able to expel internal latent heat to the surface; additionally, turtle carapace nourishes yin and subdues yang, tonifies the liver and kidneys, and also guides the other herbs internally; Liquorice Root regulates the spleen and stomach to prevent the cold and cloying nature of the herbs from injuring the spleen and stomach qi. Combined into a formula, it collectively achieves the effects of clearing bone heat, reducing steaming, nourishing yin, and subduing yang.

Severe blood deficiency, add Chinese Angelica, Peony Root, Unprocessed Rehmannia Root; for excessive cough, add Donkey-hide Gelatin, Ophiopogon Tuber, Schisandra Fruit.

bubble_chart Modern Application

Modern medicine believes that this prescription reduces fever, inhibits bacteria, and reduces inflammation. It is mainly used for subcutaneous nodules in the lungs, bones, and joints, as well as persistent low-grade fever.