[Efficacy]

clearing heat and draining dampness, fading jaundice.

[Indications]

dampness-heat jaundice certificate. The whole body is as yellow as orange, the abdomen is slightly full, difficulty in urination, thirst, tongue coating is yellow and greasy, and the pulse is heavy or slippery.

[Prescription]

This prescription is suitable for jaundice caused by the combination of dampness and blood stasis and heat inside. The heat must not escape outside, the dampness must not leak down, and the dampness and heat combine to evaporate. Virgate Wormwood is used heavily in the prescription, which has the effect of soothing the liver and gallbladder, and is the main medicine for clearing heat and dispelling dampness and reducing jaundice; Gardenia removes irritability and heat, clears triple energizer and dredging and regulating water passage; Rhubarb Rhizoma Removes blood stasis and heat, promotes the new, so that the dampness-heat obstruction evil can be directed out of the bowels and urine, and then the whole body's jaundice will automatically retreat. There are only three flavors of medicine, one of which is indispensable.

1. jaundice: The whole body is completely yellow or the eyes are slightly yellow at the beginning.
2. Short urination and red stool are difficult.
3. Abdominal distension and fullness.
4. thirst yellow fur.
5. Pulse is stringy or slippery.

[Addition and subtraction]

1. Large constipation knot: add Immature Orange Fruit, Magnolia Bark.
2. Difficulty urinating: add Poria, Polyporus, Plantain Seed.
3. In case of severe internal heat: add Phelloendron Bark and Coptis Rhizome.
4. fever aversion to cold: Add Bupleurum, Skullcap Root.
5. Viral hepatitis: Add Isatis Root, Silver Flower, Peony Bark, wild chrysanthemum flower.

[Attention to taboos]

1. Pregnant women should use with caution.
2. Yin jaundice, which prefers cold-dampness, is not suitable for this purpose.

[Modern application]

This prescription is choleretic (significantly increases gall fel secretion, shrinks the gallbladder, and promotes gall fel excretion), resists pathogenic microorganisms, lowers serum cholesterol and β-lipoprotein, protects the liver, is anti-inflammatory, sedative, diuretic, and antipyretic. Used for acute hepatitis, jaundice, cholecystitis, gallstones, neonatal hemolytic jaundice, leptospirosis, skin disease, food poisoning, stomatitis.