bubble_chart Efficacy

Dispelling wind, clearing heat, reducing swelling, benefiting the pharynx, and promoting bowel movements.

bubble_chart Indications

Wind pathogenic heat toxin obstructing the lung and stomach causes fever and chills, headache, sore throat, difficulty swallowing, dysphoria, thirst with a desire for cold drinks, dark urine, constipation, a red tongue with a yellow greasy coating.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

This formula combines the methods of removing toxin, clearing heat, and purging. It is suitable for conditions of external contraction of wind pathogen with internal accumulation of heat, manifesting as both exterior and interior excess. This formula is composed of Lonicera and Forsythia Powder combined with Stomach-Regulating Purgative Decoction plus Coptis Detoxification Decoction minus Phelloendron Bark plus Saposhnikovia Root, Scrophularia Root, thus it can treat the pattern of common cold due to wind and heat accompanied by stagnant heat pattern in both the upper and lower burners. In the formula, Schizonepeta, Saposhnikovia Root, Mentha disperse wind and release the exterior; Lonicera, Forsythia, Great Burdock Achene, Platycodon Root, Bamboo Leaf clear heat, purge fire, and remove toxin; Coptis Rhizome clears stomach fire; Skullcap Root clears the lung and removes toxin; Gardenia drains heart fire to relieve irritability; Rhubarb Rhizoma, Mirabilite purge heat and promote bowel movement, guiding heat downward; Scrophularia Root clears heat, benefits the pharynx, and generates fluids; Liquorice Root harmonizes all the ingredients.

1. external contraction 風熱 fever and chills.
2. sore throat dysphoria.
3. thirst 飲冷.
4. constipation.
5. red tongue with yellow coating.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

1. Severe sore throat: add vietnamese sophora root, Belamcanda Rhizome, common andrographis herb.
2. Phlegm and thirst: add smallpox, Bamboo Shavings.
3. Dysphoria and desire for cold drinks: add Gypsum, Anemarrhena.

bubble_chart Modern Application

Acute tonsillitis, acute pharyngitis, oral ulcers, enterovirus, herpangina.