[Preparation method and dosage]

Grind into powder and drink it from time to time, or mix it with honey and make it into pills. Another prescription does not contain mint, but 3 qián of ginseng; there is also a prescription that adds rhubarb to treat constipation, or it is soaked in wine or simmered.

[Efficacy]

clearing heat and removing toxin, dispersing wind.

[Indications]

swollen-head infection. aversion to cold with fever, redness, swelling and pain on the head and face, difficulty in the throat, dry tongue, thirst, red tongue with yellow coating, floating and weak pulse.

[Prescription]

This prescription was originally used to treat swollen-head infection (today's erysipelas) and is still used today. It can be used as appropriate by anyone with upper energizer, wind, fever, epidemic toxin. Fangzhong Skullcap Root, Coptis Rhizome relieves heat in the heart and lungs; Mentha, Forsythia, Great Burdock Achene, Stiff Silkworm evacuation upper energizer head and face wind heat; Puff-Ball, Isatis Root, clearing heat and removing toxin; Scrophularia Root, Platycodon Root, Liquorice Root clearing heat disinhibiting benifiting the pharynx; Cimicifuga Rhizome , Bupleurum releasing exterior with pungent-cool, and introducing various medicines upward; Dried Tangerine Peel regulates qi and loosens congestion to disperse evil heat stagnation knots. Used together with clearing and dredging, lifting and lowering together, it can achieve the effect of clearing heat and removing toxin, dispersing wind and dispersing evil.

[Key points of syndrome differentiation]

1. Heat toxin in head, face and throat.
2. fever aversion to cold.
3. thirst.
4. The fur is yellow.
5. Pulse floating number.

[Addition and subtraction]

1. More cough phlegm: add Mongolian Snakegourd Seed, Bitter Apricot Seed, Coltsfoot Flower.
2. Dry mouth: add Reed Rhizome, Snakegourd Root.
3. constipation: add Rhubarb Rhizoma, Sodium Sulfate.
4. Heat toxin: add Silver Flower, Dandelion, Dyers Woad.

[Attention to taboos]

Most of the medicines in this prescription are bitter, cold and pungent powder. Those with yin deficiency should use with caution.

[Modern application]

erysipelas, acute tonsillitis, mumps, upper respiratory tract infection, enterovirus, acute otitis media, rhinitis, herpes zoster.