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 Formulas for heat-clearing

1.  Recipes for clearing away heat from the Qi system

1.1 White tiger decoction (Baihu Tang)

Ingredients:

Gypsum (Shigao) 30g

Anemarrhena   (Zhimu) 9g 

Oryza (Jingmi) 9g

Licorice root (Gancao) 3g

Function:  Clearing away heat and promoting the production of body fluid

Indication:   Excessive hat syndrome in qi system, high fever, polydipsia, profuse sweating, full forceful pulse, red tongue with yellow fur

1.2 Lophatherum and Gypsum decoction (Zhuye Shigao Tang)

Ingredients

Bamboo leaf (Zhuye) 15g

Gypsum (Shigao) 30g

Ginseng (Renshen)15g

Ophiopogon (Maidong) 9g

Pinellia (Banxie) 9g

Oryza (Jingmi) 15

Licorice root (Gancao) 5g

Function:  Clearing away heat and promoting the production of body fluid, replenishing qi and regulating the stomach

Indication:  fabric diseases of yin-qi injured, low fever, polydipsia, profuse sweating, short breath, lassitude, red tongue with little coating, rapid and weak  pulse 

2. Recipes for removing heat from the Ying and Blood system

Decoction for clearing heat in the ying system (Qingying Tang)

Ingredients

Rhinoceros horn (Xijiao) 1.5-3g ( substituted with Buffalo horn 30g) 

Rehmannia (Shengdi) 15g

Scrophularia (Xuanseng) 9g

Red sage root (Danseng)  6g

Bamboo leaf (Zhuye) 3g

Honeysuckle flower (Qinyinhua) 9g

Forsythia fruit (Lianqiao) 6g

Coptis root (Huanglian) 5g

Ophiopogon (Maidong) 9g

Function:  Clearing away heat from the ying system, nourishing yin and promote blood stasis

Indication:  Ying-stage of fabric diseases, fever worsening in the night, irritability, insomnia, or even delirium, dull macula on skin, deep red tongue with dry coating, rapid   pulse 

3. Recipes for removing heat from the Qi and Blood systems

Antipyretic and antitoxic decoction (Qingwen Baidu Yin)

Ingredients

Gypsum (Shigao) 30g

Rhinoceros horn (Xijiao) 1.5-3g ( substituted with Buffalo horn 30g) 

Rehmannia (Shengdi) 15g

Coptis root (Huanglian) 3g

Scutellaria (Huangqin) 6g

Capejasmine fruit (Zhizi) 6g

Platycodon root (Jiegeng) 3g

Anemarrhena   (Zhimu) 6g

Red peony root (Zhishao) 6g

Scrophularia (Xuanseng) 6g

Forsythia fruit (Lianqiao) 6g

Moutan bark (Danpi) 6g

Bamboo leaf (Zhuye) 3g

Licorice (Gancao) 3g

Function:  Clearing away heat and toxic, removing heat from the blood system, nourishing yin and stopping bleeding

Indication:  Intense heat and virulent pathogen in both qi and blood systems, high fever, polydipsia, serious headache, delirium or coma, or dull macula on skin, or bleeding, deep red tongue with dry coating, rapid   pulse 

4. Recipes for clearing away heat and toxic

4.1 Antitoxic decoction of Coptis (Huanglian Jiedu Tang)

Ingredients

Coptis root (Huanglian) 9g

Scutellaria (Huangqin) 6g

Phellodendron bark (Huangbai) 6g

Capejasmine fruit (Zhizi) 9g

Function:  Clearing away heat and toxic 

Indication: Any kind of excessive heat syndrome,  high fever, polydipsia,  , delirium or coma, or dull macula on skin,  jaundice, carbuncle, dysentery,  deep red tongue with  yellow coating, rapid   pulse 

4.2 Universal relief decoction for disinfections (Puji Xiaodu Yin)

Ingredients:

Coptis root (Huanglian) 15g

Scutellaria (Huangqin) 15g

Tangerine peel (Chenpi) 6g

Licorice (Gancao) 6g

Scrophularia (Xuanseng) 6g

Platycodon root (Jiegeng) 6g

Bupleurum (Caihu) 6g

Forsythia fruit (Lianqiao) 3g

Puff-ball (Mabo) 3g

Arctium fruit (Niubangzi) 3g

Peppermint (Bohe) 3g

White stiff silkworm (Jaingcan) 2g

Cimicifuga  (Shengma) 2g

Function:  Clearing away heat and toxic, dispelling wind and other exopathogens 

Indication:  Infection with swollen head, marked high fever,  red and swollen head, serious headache,  deep red tongue with yellow coating, rapid   pulse

5. Recipes for removing heat from the viscera

5.1 Powder for treating dark urine (Daochi San)

Ingredients:

Rehmannia (Shengdi)  18g

Clematis (Mutong) 12g

Bamboo leaf (Zhuye) 12g

Licorice (Gancao) 6g

Function:  Clearing away heat from heart

Indication: Syndrome of heat in the heart, marked insomnia, ulceration of the oral cavity and tongue, frequent, painful and urgent urination, red tongue with yellow coating, rapid  pulse

5.2 Decoction of gentian for purging liver-fire (Longdan Xiegan Tang)

Ingredients:

Gentian (Longdancao) 6g

Scutellaria (Huangqin) 10g

Capejasmine fruit (Zhizi) 9g

Oriental water plantain (Zexie) 12g

Clematis (Mutong) 12g

Plantain seed (Zheqianzi) 9g

Angelica (Danggui) 3g

Rehmannia (Shengdi)  9g

Bupleurum (Caihu) 6g

Licorice (Gancao) 6g

Function:  Clearing away heat from liver channel, removing damp-heat from lower warmer

Indication: Heat or heat-damp syndrome in the liver channel marked bitter taste in the mouth, red swelling pain in the eye, swollen ear, tinnitus and deafness, headache, swelling or itching in the genital organs, yellow leukorrhea, turbid or painful urination, red tongue with yellow or yellow greasy fur, rapid pulse 

5.3 Lung-heat expelling powder (Xiebai Powder)

Ingredients:

Wolfberry bark (Digupi) 30g

Mulberry bark (Sangbaipi) 30g

Licorice (gancao) 6g

Oryza (Jingmi) 9g

Function:  Clearing away heat in the lung, stopping cough and asthma 

Indication: lung heat syndrome, marked cough or asthma, fever, red tongue with yellow coating, rapid pulse

5.4 Gypsum decoction (Yunu Jian)

Ingredients:

Gypsum (Shigao) 30g

Prepared rehmannia 30g

Ophiopogon (Maidong) 6g

Anemarrhena (Zhimu) 4.5g

Achyranthes root (Niuxi) 4.5g

Function: Clearing away heat from the stomach and nourishing yin 

Indication: The syndrome of heat in the stomach, marked   headache, toothache, odontoseisis, thirst, red tongue with yellow coating, rapid   pulse

5.5 Peony decoction (Shaoyao Tang)

Ingredients:

Peony  (Shaoyao) 15g

Angelica (Danggui) 9g

Coptis root (Huanglian) 9g

Scutellaria (Huangqin) 15g

Areca seed (Binlang) 5g

Aucklandia (Muxiang) 5g

Licorice (Gancao) 5g

Rhubarb (Dahuang) 9g

Cinnamon bark (Rougui) 5g

Function:  Clearing away heat-damp, regulating blood and qi

Indication:  Diarrhea or dysentery due to heat-damp, marked pus and blood in the stool tenesmus, burning sensation in the anus,  red tongue with yellow greasy coating, rapid  pulse

5.6 Pulsatilla decoction (Baitouwang Tang)

Ingredients:

Pulsatilla  root (Baitouwang) 15g 

Phellodendron bark (Huangbai) 12g

Coptis root (Huanglian) 6g

Ash bark (Qinpi) 12g

Function:  Clearing away heat and toxic, cooling the blood to treat dysentery

Indication:  Diarrhea or dysentery due to noxious heat, marked more blood in the stool, tenesmus, burning sensation in the anus, red tongue with yellow coating, rapid  pulse

6. Recipes for clearing away heat of deficient type  

6.1 Sweet wormwood and turtle shell decoction (Qinghao Biejia Tang)

Ingredients:

Sweet wormwood (Qinghao) 6g

Turtle shell (Biejia) 15g

Rehmannia (Shengdihuang)12g

Anemarrhena (Zhimu) 6g

Moutan Bark (Danpi 9g

Function:  Nourishing yin and clearing away heat 

Indication:  The later stage of fabric diseases, or fever due to yin deficiency marked afternoon lower fever, red tongue with little coating, rapid   pulse

6.2 Powder for clearing bone-heat (Qinggu San)

Ingredients:

Stellaria root (Yincaihu) 5g

Picrorhiza rhizome (Huhuanglian) 3g

Large-leaf gentian root (Qinju) 3g

Sweet wormwood (Qinghao) 3g

Turtle shell (Biejia) 3g

Wolfberry bark (Digupi) 3g 

Anemarrhena (Zhimu) 3g

Licorice 2g

Function:  Nourishing yin and clearing away heat 

Indication:  Fever due to yin deficiency marked  afternoon lower  fever,  night sweating, red tongue with little coating, rapid thin pulse

7. Recipes for clearing away summer-heat and replenishing qi

Decoction for clearing away summer-heat and replenishing qi (Qingshu Yiqi Tang)

Ingredients:

American ginseng 5g

Stem of noble dendrobium (Shihu) 15g

Ophiopogon (Maidong) 9g

Coptis root (Huanglian) 3g

Bamboo leaf (Zhuye) 6g

Lotus stem (Hegeng) 15g

Anemarrhena (Zhimu) 3g

Licorice (Gancao) 2g

Watermelon peel 30g

Function: Clearing away summer-heat and replenishing qi and yin

Indication:  Consumption of qi and yin by summer-heat, marked fever, profuse sweating, restlessness, thirsty, lassitude, dry red tongue, rapid and weak pulse

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