bubble_chart Efficacy

Relieves heat and clears the lungs.

bubble_chart Indications

For summer heat injuring the lungs, with pathogenic factors at the qi level, presenting with mild fever and thirst, but with unclear head and eyes, slight dizziness, and mild distension; or for those affected by summer heat and warmth, with residual pathogens not resolved after sweating, presenting with the above symptoms.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

Summerheat is a yang pathogen, most likely to damage qi and consume fluids. Treatment should aim to disperse heat with pungent-cool herbs to clear and resolve the pathogen. However, in this formula's pattern, the pathogen is shallow and the illness is mild, requiring only a mild pungent-cool method to avoid excessive treatment for a severe condition. Wenbing Tiaobian uses this formula for unresolved residual pathogens of summerheat warmth, serving as a post-treatment clearing agent. It states: "Since it is called residual pathogens, heavy formulas are clearly inappropriate; only aromatic and light herbs are sufficient to clear residual pathogens in the lung collaterals." Therefore, the herbs used in this formula are all pungent-cool and light-clearing, suitable for mild patterns of summerheat damaging the lung channel's qi aspect, such as fresh Lonicera , watermelon rind for pungent-cool clearing of summerheat; fresh hyacinth dolichos flower for expelling summerheat and resolving dampness; fresh Lotus Leaf for clearing summerheat and dispersing heat; sponge gourd peel for clearing lung collaterals and resolving summerheat; Bamboo Leaf for clearing the heart and disinhibiting dampness.

Common cold, summerheat stroke.