bubble_chart Efficacy

Soothing the liver and clearing heat.

bubble_chart Indications

Excess heat pattern of the liver and gallbladder meridians and the triple energizer. Symptoms include discomfort in the chest and hypochondrium, alternating chills and fever, bitter taste in the mouth, dry and sore throat or tinnitus, ear pain, itchy skin, or in women, leukorrhea and vulvar pruritus, red tongue with yellow greasy coating, and wiry and rapid or floating and rapid pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

This formula is the Warming and Clearing Decoction, enhanced with ingredients that disperse wind-heat, thus it has the effects of harmonizing blood, soothing the liver, and clearing liver heat, and can treat excess heat. It is particularly effective for fire-heat pattern in the liver and gallbladder meridians. The formula heavily uses Bupleurum for its liver-soothing properties and to guide other herbs into the liver meridian; it employs Four Ingredients Decoction to nourish blood and emolliate the liver, where Prepared Rehmannia Root is used instead of Unprocessed Rehmannia Root for its stronger heat-clearing effect. Additionally, Coptis Detoxification Decoction is used to clear heat and remove toxins, treating all types of fire-heat syndromes; Mentha, Forsythia, Great Burdock Achene, and Platycodon Root disperse wind and clear heat, remove toxins, and benefit the throat; Trichosanthes Seed clears heat and resolves phlegm, moistens the intestines to relieve constipation. When these herbs are combined, they collectively achieve the effects of clearing the liver and removing toxins, dispersing wind, and eliminating heat.

1. Liver, gallbladder, and triple energizer meridian excess heat pattern.
2. Bitter taste in the mouth and dry throat.
3. Alternating chills and fever.
4. Yellow and greasy tongue coating.
5. Wiry and rapid pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

1. Liver wind-heat: add Notopterygium, Schizonepeta.
2. Suppurative tonsillitis: add vietnamese sophora root, Belamcanda Rhizome, Scrophularia Root.
3. Aversion to cold with fever: add Mulberry Leaf, Chrysanthemum Flower.
4. Leukorrhea and vulvar pruritus: add Patrinia, Sophora, Cnidium Fruit.
5. Thyroiditis: add Prunella.

bubble_chart Modern Application

Acute and chronic hepatitis, dermatitis, acne, mumps, chronic tonsillitis, thyroiditis, Guanneng syndrome, cervical lymphadenopathy, postauricular lymphadenitis, pleuritis, vaginitis, urethritis, otitis media.