bubble_chart Efficacy

Clearing heat and removing toxins, cooling blood and draining dampness. Used for dampness-heat fire toxin, initial stages of boils and sores, alternating chills and fever, numbness and itching, redness, swelling, heat and pain, restlessness and thirst, difficulty in urination and defecation, yellow and greasy tongue coating, deep and rapid pulse. Antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and detoxifying. Mainly used for suppurative infections of soft tissues, presenting with redness, swelling, heat, and pain in sores, and a rapid pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

This formula is a heavy prescription for clearing heat and removing toxins. It can be used to treat boils, sores, pustular sores, back gangrene, and other yang-heat syndromes caused by fire toxins. In the formula, Lonicera, Diding, and Coptis Rhizome purge fire and clear heat to remove toxins; Forsythia disperses blood stasis and qi stagnation; Prunella clears liver heat and disperses heat accumulation; Chiling clears heat and drains dampness; Rhinoceros Horn and Danpi clear the nutrient aspect and cool the blood, while also preventing the excessive flourishing of fire toxins and their inward invasion into the nutrient-blood. When combined, these ingredients work together to achieve the effects of clearing heat and removing toxins, as well as cooling the blood and draining dampness. If the tendency of the disease is mild, Rhinoceros Horn may be omitted.

Acute mastitis, carbuncle, boil, and sore.