Huang Qin Usages and Indications

• Clears heat, drains fire, especially from the upper warmer - heat patterns with fever, irritability, thirst, cough, thick, yellow sputum, hot sores and swellings.
• Clears heat, dries dampness - damp-heat in the stomach or intestines, diarrhea, dysentery; damp warm-febrile disease with fever, stifling sensation in the chest, thirst with no desire to drink; damp-heat in the lower jiao - lin syndrome; damp-heat jaundice.
• Clears heat, stops bleeding - vomiting and/or coughing of blood, nosebleed, blood in the stool.
• Clears heat, calms the fetus - restless fetus due to heat.
• Sedates liver yang rising - headache, irritability, red eyes, bitter taste, flushed face.

Dosage and Preparation Notes For Huang Qin

• Dosage: 6-15g

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Our database contains 19 TCM Formulas where Huang Qin is generally used

A

• An Gong Niu Huang Wan -Calm The Palace Pill With Cattle Gallstone (Clear Heat)

B

• Ban Xia Xie Xin Wan -Pinellia Drain Epigastrium Pills (Harmonize)

C

• Chai Hu Gui Zhi Tang Wan -Bupleurum and Cinnamon Twig Decoction (Release the Exterior)
• Chai Hu Jia Long Gu Mu Li Wan -Bupleurum, Dragon Bone, and Oyster Shell Formula (Calm The Spirit)
• Chu Kou Wei Wan -Chu Kou Wei Wan (Clear Heat)

D

• Dang Gui Wan -Tangkuei Powder (Tonify)

F

• Fang Feng Tong Sheng Wan -Ledebouriella Pills to Sagely Unblock (Release the Exterior)

H

• Huang Lian Jie Du Wan -Coptis Decoction To Relieve Toxicity (Clear Heat)
• Huang Lian Shang Qing Wan -Coptis Clearance Pill (Clear Heat)

J

• Jiang Ya Wan -Repress The Blood Pressure Pills (Harmonize)

L

• Li Dan Wan -Benefit The Gallbladder Pills (Expel Dampness)
• Long Dan Xie Gan Wan -Gentiana Purge Liver Formula (Clear Heat)

Q

• Qing Qi Hua Tan Wan -Clear the Qi and Transform Phlegm Pill (Treat Phlegm)

T

• Tian Ma Gou Teng Wan -Gastrodia and Uncaria Formula (Expel Wind)

X

• Xiao Chai Hu Tang Wan -Minor Bupleurum Decoction (Harmonize)
• Xie Xin Wan -Drain the Epigastrium Formula (Clear Heat)
• Xin Yi Qing Fei Wan -Magnolia Flower Drink To Clear The Lungs (Release the Exterior)

Y

• Yi Zi Wan -Decoction B (Clear Heat)

Z

• Zhong Feng Hui Chun Wan -Stroke Recovery Pills (Invigorate the Blood)

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