bubble_chart Efficacy

Clearing heat and promoting fluid production, alleviating consumptive thirst and relieving restlessness.

bubble_chart Indications

Excessive Yangming heat, dry mouth and throat, intense thirst with a desire to drink, flushed face, aversion to heat, profuse sweating, and a pulse that is surging and powerful or slippery and rapid.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

This formula treats external contraction of cold pathogens that have transformed into heat upon entering the interior, or warm pathogens that have transmitted to the qi aspect, resulting in an excess heat pattern. In the formula, Gypsum, which is pungent, sweet, and of Great Cold nature (24th solar term), can clear and drain lung and stomach heat, while also releasing the flesh and penetrating heat, allowing the heat in the lung and stomach to be dissipated both internally and externally. Anemarrhena assists Gypsum in clearing and draining excess heat from the lung and stomach. Although its nature is bitter, pungent, and cold, it is moistening and does not cause dryness. The combination of these two medicinals mutually reinforces their effects, significantly enhancing their ability to resolve depression and discharge heat. Liquorice Root and rice benefit the stomach and promote fluid production, ensuring that the Great Cold (24th solar term) nature of the formula does not harm the stomach.

1. Yangming heat exuberance (qi aspect excess heat).
2. Dry tongue and vexing thirst.
3. Red face and aversion to heat.
4. Profuse sweating.
5. Pulse is surging and forceful.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

1. Qi deficiency consumptive thirst: Add Ginseng named Ginseng White Tiger Decoction.
2. Dampness warm disease heavy body: Add Atractylodes Rhizome. Named White Tiger Decoction Plus Atractylodes.
3. Warm malaria joint pain: Add Cinnamon Twig, named White Tiger Cinnamon Twig Decoction.
4. Excessive heat: Add Lonicera, Forsythia, Isatis Root.
5. Stomatitis: Combine Redness-Removing Powder.
6. Alternating chills and fever, more heat and less cold: Add Bupleurum, Skullcap Root.
7. Constipation: Add Rhubarb Rhizoma, Mirabilite.
8. Gingival swelling and pain: Add Cimicifuga Rhizome, Coptis Rhizome, Skullcap Root, Dahurian Angelica.
9. Stomach qi ascending counterflow, epigastric stuffiness: Add Pinellia, Bamboo Shavings.

bubble_chart Cautions and Contraindications

1. If the exterior pattern has not been resolved, or if the yangming fu-organ pattern has already appeared, it should not be used.
2. In cases of qi-deficiency fever with a pale complexion and a pulse that is large but weak upon deep pressure, it belongs to qi-deficiency fever and should not be used.

bubble_chart Modern Application

Pneumonia, measles, epidemic meningitis, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, heat stroke, oral ulcers, gingivitis, hordeolum, myocarditis, conjunctivitis, influenza, diphtheria, scarlet fever, burns, eczema, psoriasis, itchy skin, enteric fever.