bubble_chart Efficacy

Harmonizing shaoyang, clearing heat and resolving phlegm, soothing the chest to dissipate bind.

bubble_chart Indications

1. cold-damage disease shaoyang pattern, alternating chills and fever, fullness and discomfort in chest and hypochondrium, anorexia, bitter taste in mouth, dry throat, dizzy vision, thin white tongue coating, wiry pulse.
2. Women with cold-damage disease, heat entering the uterus, as well as malaria, jaundice, and internal damage Zabing presenting with shaoyang pattern.
3. Phlegm-heat binding, chest and gastric stuffiness, pain upon pressure or coughing with thick yellow phlegm, yellow greasy tongue coating, slippery and rapid pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

This formula is a combination of Minor Bupleurum Decoction and Minor Chest Bind Decoction, hence its name. It is suitable for cases where the symptoms and signs of both formulas are present. For detailed explanations, please refer to the respective analyses of the two formulas.

bubble_chart Pattern Identification

1. alternating chills and fever or body heat.
2. bitter taste in mouth.
3. fullness and discomfort in chest and hypochondrium.
4. yellow and thick phlegm.
5. string-like or slippery and rapid pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

1. Fever or viral infection: Add Lonicera, Forsythia, Isatis Root.
2. Mumps or tonsillitis: Add Dandelion, Prunella, Stiff Silkworm.
3. Vertigo: Add Alisma, Poria, White Atractylodes Rhizome.
4. Bitter taste in mouth and dry throat: Add Gardenia, Prunella.
5. Yellow and thick phlegm, yellow and greasy tongue coating: Add Bamboo Shavings, Tabasheer.
6. Constipation: Add Rhubarb Rhizoma, Mirabilite.

bubble_chart Modern Application

Common cold, influenza, mumps, tonsillitis, malaria, subcutaneous nodule of the lung, cold-damage disease, pleuritis, pneumonia, infectious mononucleosis, bronchial asthma, bronchitis, myocarditis, colicky pain of the heart, gastritis, cholecystitis, hepatitis, pancreatitis, pyelonephritis, nephrotic syndrome, cystitis, diabetes, appendicitis, postpartum fever infection, acute conjunctivitis, keratitis, optic neuritis, otitis media, etc.