bubble_chart Efficacy

Clearing heat and removing toxin, resolving turbidity and draining dampness.

bubble_chart Indications

At the onset of damp-warm disease, summerheat-warmth, or pestilence, when the pathogen is at the qi aspect and dampness-heat are equally severe, symptoms include fever, fatigue, chest tightness, abdominal distension and fullness, restlessness without sweating, or sweating with persistent fever, jaundice, thirst, or throat and cheek swelling, dark urine, constipation, or diarrhea with difficulty and a foul, hot odor, a pale or thick and greasy tongue coating, and a soggy pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

In the formula, Talc clears heat and drains dampness, also relieves summer heat; Virgate Wormwood, Akebia Stem clear heat and drain dampness, guiding dampness-heat to be expelled through urine: Skullcap Root clears heat and dries dampness; Forsythia clears heat and removes toxins; Fritillaria Bulb, Belamcanda Rhizome soothe the throat and dissipate nodules: Acorus, Cardamon Fruit, Patchouli, Mentha, aromatic herbs resolve dampness, move qi, and delight the spleen. The combination of these herbs not only clears and drains but also uses aromatic herbs to resolve dampness, allowing the dampness-heat and toxic evils to be resolved.

1. Body heat and jaundice.
2. Chest tightness and abdominal distension and fullness.
3. Dark urine and constipation.
4. Tongue coating pale white.
5. Pulse soggy.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

1. Thirst without desire to drink: Add Patchouli, Fortune Eupatorium, to aromatic herbs resolving dampness.
2. Tongue coating white and greasy: Add Fortune Eupatorium, Coix Seed, Atractylodes Rhizome, White Atractylodes Rhizome, to invigorate spleen and resolve dampness.
3. Tongue coating yellow and greasy: Add Coptis Rhizome, Atractylodes Rhizome, to clear heat and dry dampness.
4. Urine red and hot: Add Bamboo Leaf, Plantain Seed to clear heat and drain dampness.
5. Urgency and heaviness in the lower abdomen, burning sensation in the anus: Add Areca Seed, Aucklandia Root, to move qi and remove food stagnation.
6. Viral hepatitis: Add Shield-fern Rhizome, Christina Loosestrife, and Solanum surattense.

bubble_chart Modern Application

This formula significantly regulates gastrointestinal motility and secretion, promotes bile production, protects against liver damage, acts as a diuretic, combats pathogenic microorganisms, and reduces fever. It is used for cold-damage disease, viral hepatitis, cholecystitis, gallstones, acute gastroenteritis, uremia, diabetes, stomatitis, thrush, and urinary tract infections. This formula is widely applied in clinical practice, especially during the summer damp-heat season. It is suitable for damp-warm diseases, summerheat warmth, and seasonal epidemics characterized by a combination of dampness and heat, with pathogenic factors lingering in the qi aspect.