clearing heat and removing toxin, draining dampness.

[Indications]

The first onset of dampness warm disease, summerheat warmth, pestilence, evil in qi aspect, and dampness-heat are both important. Symptoms include fever and fatigue. Abdominal distension and fullness, irritability without sweating, or sweating without heat, yellow body, thirst or sore throat, constipation of red urine, or poor diarrhea, hot odor, white or thick tongue coating, Pulse.

[Prescription]

Fangzhong Talc clearing heat and draining dampness also relieves heat; Virgate Wormwood, Akebia Stem clearing heat and draining dampness, induces dampness- heat comes out of urine: Skullcap Root clearing heat and drying dampness; Forsythia clearing heat and removing toxin; Fritillaria Bulb, Belamcanda Rhizome Resolving dampness: Acorus, Cardamon Fruit, Patchouli, Mentha, aromatic herbs resolving dampness, moving qi means pleasing the spleen. The combination of various herbs not only clears and relieves diarrhea, but also aromatic herbs resolving dampness, so that dampness-heat poisonous evils can be resolved.

1. The body warms up yellow.
2. Chest tightness, abdominal distension and fullness.
3. Red urine constipation.
4. tongue coating light white.
5. Pulse is moist.

[Addition and subtraction]

1. Those who are thirsty and do not want fluid retention: add Patchouli, Fortune Eupatorium, and aromatic herbs to resolving dampness.
2. For white tongue coating: add Fortune Eupatorium, Coix Seed, Atractylodes Rhizome, White Atractylodes Rhizome , to invigorating spleen and resolving dampness.
3. If the tongue coating is yellow and greasy: add Coptis Rhizome and Atractylodes Rhizome to clear heat and drying dampness.
4. For those with red and hot urine: add Bamboo Leaf and Plantain Seed to clear heat and draining dampness.
5. For those with tenesmus and anal burning: add Areca Seed, Aucklandia Root, and remove food stagnation.
6. Viral hepatitis: add Shield-fern Rhizome, Christina Loosestrife, and yellow water nightshade.

[Modern application]

This prescription has significant effects on regulating gastrointestinal motility and secretion function, is choleretic, resists liver damage, diuretic, resists pathogenic microorganisms, and relieves fever. Used for diseases caused by cold, viral hepatitis, cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, acute gastroenteritis, uremia, diabetes, stomatitis, thrush, urinary tract infection, etc. This prescription is widely used clinically, especially in the summerheat dampness season. It can be used by those who see dampness warm disease, summerheat warmth disease, seasonal epidemic, both dampness and heat, and evil factors.