Bupleurum, Dried Pueraria, Licorice, Scutellaria, Peony, Notopterygium, Angelica Dahurica, Platycodon, Gypsum

bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

Use 400 ml of water, add 3 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes, boil and take while hot.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Releasing the flesh and clearing heat.

bubble_chart Indications

Common cold wind-cold, stagnation transforming into heat, aversion to cold with fever, headache, limb pain, eye pain, dry nose, orbital pain, restlessness and insomnia, thin yellow tongue coating, floating and slightly surging pulse. Currently used for common cold, influenza, and other conditions presenting with the above symptoms.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

In the formula, Bupleurum and Pueraria Root serve as the sovereign to release the flesh and effuse the exterior; Gypsum and Skullcap Root clear internal stagnant heat, while Notopterygium and Dahurian Angelica Powder address external contraction of wind-cold as the ministers; Platycodon Root ventilates the lung and benefits the throat, and Peony Root harmonizes the nutrient aspect and drains heat as the assistants; Fresh Ginger Rhizome and Chinese Date harmonize the nutrient and defense aspects, and strengthen the spleen and stomach as the envoys. The combination of these herbs collectively achieves the effect of acrid-cool releasing the flesh while simultaneously clearing stagnant heat.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

Without sweating, aversion to cold, especially, remove Skullcap Root and add Ephedra; in winter, it is appropriate to add, in spring, it should be reduced, and in summer and autumn, remove it and add cultivated purple perilla leaf.