bubble_chart Efficacy

Clearing heat and promoting fluid production, tonifying qi, and harmonizing the stomach.

bubble_chart Indications

1. Rebing late stage [third stage], residual heat not cleared, injury to both qi and body fluids. Vomiting, irritability, thirst, dry mouth and lips, dry throat with cough, restlessness in the chest, or inability to sleep due to deficiency irritability, red tongue with little coating, weak and rapid pulse.
2. Summerheat pattern, injury to both qi and body fluids. Fever with profuse sweating, deficiency and emaciation, shortness of qi, irritability and thirst with a desire to drink, red tongue, weak and rapid pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

This formula is derived from the White Tiger Decoction. The White Tiger Decoction is indicated for cases of strong vital qi and excessive pathogenic factors, while this formula is indicated for cases where the intense heat has subsided but residual heat remains, accompanied by damage to both qi and body fluids. In this formula, Bamboo Leaf and Gypsum are used as the monarch herbs to resolve depression and discharge heat, thereby eliminating pathogenic heat. Ginseng and Ophiopogon Tuber are used as the minister herbs to tonify qi and promote fluid production, thereby addressing the deficiency of vital qi. Pinellia is used to counteract the counterflow of liver qi and stop vomiting. Although it is warm in nature, when combined with heat-clearing and fluid-promoting herbs, its warm and drying properties are neutralized, while its ability to descend counterflow and transport body fluids is preserved. It also helps restore spleen function, harmonize stomach qi, and alleviate the stagnation caused by Ginseng and Ophiopogon Tuber, serving as an assistant herb. Liquorice Root and rice are used as the envoy herbs to nourish and regulate stomach qi. When all these herbs are used together, they can clear residual heat, replenish consumed qi and yin, and address both pathogenic factors and vital qi, making this formula a moistening and tonifying agent. It can be used in cases of persistent fever during the recovery process, where both qi and yin are damaged.

1. Profuse sweating.
2. Dry mouth and shortage of qi.
3. Red tongue with little coating.
4. Weak and rapid pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

1. thirst severe: add smallpox powder, Unprocessed Rehmannia Root, Dendrobium.
2. Heat severe: increase Gypsum or add Lonicera, Forsythia, Skullcap Root.
3. Excessive sweating: add White Atractylodes Rhizome.
4. qi deficiency obvious: add Astragalus Root.
5. blood deficiency obvious: add Chinese Angelica, Prepared Rehmannia Root.
6. Pneumonia with wheezing and cough: add Ephedra, Bitter Apricot Seed, Skullcap Root, Heartleaf Houttuynia Herb.
7. Excessive phlegm: add Fritillaria Bulb, tangerine peel.

bubble_chart Modern Application

Pneumonia, bronchitis, lung subcutaneous node, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, heat stroke, diabetes, common cold, influenza, infantile summer heat disease, lung qi swelling, lung gangrene.