Gardenia 9 gm (split) Fermented Soybean 4 gm (wrapped in cotton fabric)

bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

Take 400 ml of water, first boil the gardenia to obtain 250 ml, then add the fermented soybeans and decoct to 150 ml. Remove the dregs, divide into two doses, and take one dose warm. If vomiting occurs, stop taking the remaining dose.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Resolving depression and discharging heat.

bubble_chart Indications

After sweating, vomiting, and purging, residual heat stagnates in the chest and diaphragm, leading to fever, restlessness, and an inability to sleep. There is a feeling of stuffiness and fullness in the chest, which is soft to the touch and not painful. There is an epigastric upset resembling hunger, but with a lack of appetite. The tongue is red with a thin yellow coating, and the pulse is rapid.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

In the formula, Gardenia is bitter in taste and cold in nature, clearing heat and relieving irritability, descending yet dispersing; fermented soybean is light in substance and cold in qi, ascending and dispersing while regulating the middle, dispersing yet descending. The combination of these two herbs works together to achieve the effect of resolving depression and discharging heat.