bubble_chart Efficacy

Dispelling cold and heat, promoting urination, and resolving phlegm.

bubble_chart Indications

Residual heat, chest and hypochondriac stuffiness and fullness, frequent vomiting, thirst, difficulty in urination, white tongue coating, or vomiting and diarrhea after drinking water, insomnia, and consumptive thirst.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

This formula is a combination of Minor Bupleurum Decoction and Five Ingredients with Poria Powder. It is suitable for cases where the symptoms and signs of both formulas coexist. The Minor Bupleurum Decoction syndrome (alternating chills and fever or body heat, bitter taste in the mouth, white tongue coating, fullness and discomfort in the chest and hypochondrium, anorexia). The Five Ingredients with Poria Powder syndrome (thirst, dysuria, edema, diarrhea, etc.). In the formula, Bupleurum can soothe liver qi and treat fullness and discomfort in the chest and hypochondrium, combined with Skullcap Root to clear heat with its bitter cold nature, and to relieve stagnation in the chest and hypochondrium; Pinellia, Fresh Ginger Rhizome to stop vomiting or alleviate nausea; Ginseng, Liquorice Root, Chinese Date to tonify qi, harmonize the middle, increase appetite, and alleviate discomfort in the chest and hypochondrium; Alisma, Poria, Polyporus, White Atractylodes Rhizome to drain dampness, invigorate the spleen, and promote diuresis; Cinnamon Twig to eliminate residual pathogens on the surface and treat rising qi.

1. alternating chills and fever or body heat.
2. bitter taste in mouth, fullness and discomfort in chest and hypochondrium.
3. thirst.
4. difficulty in urination.
5. diarrhea.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

1. Restlessness and dry mouth: add Ophiopogon Tuber, Coptis Rhizome.
2. Vomiting and thirst: add Immature Orange Fruit, Bamboo Shavings.
3. Diarrhea and dry mouth: add Dried Ginger, Phelloendron Bark.
4. Retained food vomiting and diarrhea: combine with Stomach-Calming Powder.
5. Summer heat vomiting and diarrhea: combine with Three-Ingredient Mosla Decoction.
6. Deficiency-cold vomiting and diarrhea: combine with Middle-Regulating Decoction or Evodia Decoction.

bubble_chart Modern Application

Common cold, acute gastroenteritis, summer heat stroke, nephritis, pyelonephritis, edema, acute and chronic hepatitis, biliary disorders.