bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

Take the two ingredients, boil Gardenia in four liters of water first, reducing it to two and a half liters. Then add fermented soybeans and continue boiling until one and a half liters remain. Remove the dregs, divide into two doses, and take one dose warm. If vomiting occurs, discontinue the second dose.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Resolving depression and discharging heat.

bubble_chart Indications

After sweating, vomiting, and purging, residual heat stagnates in the chest and diaphragm, causing fever, restlessness, and insomnia. There is a feeling of stuffiness in the chest and stomach, which is soft to the touch and not painful. There is an epigastric upset resembling hunger, but with anorexia. The tongue is red with a slightly yellow coating, and the pulse is rapid.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

In the formula, Gardenia is bitter in taste and cold in nature, clearing heat and relieving irritability, descending with a hint of ascending; Fermented Soybean (Douchi) is light in substance and cold in qi, dispersing and regulating the middle, ascending with a hint of descending. The combination of these two herbs works together to achieve the effect of resolving depression and discharging heat.