Long Dan Xie Gan Wan Gentiana Purge Liver Formula - TCM Herbal Formula

Names Of Long Dan Xie Gan Wan

Long Dan Xie Gan Wan TCM Herbal Formula

English Name: Gentiana Purge Liver Formula
Pinyin Name: Long Dan Xie Gan Wan
Alternate Names: Gentiana to Drain the Liver
Chinese Character: 龙胆泻肝丸

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How Is Long Dan Xie Gan Wan Categorized?

Long Dan Xie Gan Wan Functional Groupings

Primary Category: Clear Heat
Subcategory: Clear Heat From The Organs

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Sub Categories Within The Clear Heat Category

Clear Heat and Relieve Toxicity Clear Heat From Deficiency Clear Heat From The Nutritive Level and Cool The Blood Clear Heat From The Organs Clear Heat From The Qi Level Relieve Summerheat

There Are 23 Formulas In Our Clear Heat Category

How Is Long Dan Xie Gan Wan Used Clinically?

Long Dan Xie Gan Wan Usages and Indications

Hypochondriac pain, bitter taste in the mouth, irritability, easily angered, headache, dizziness, red, and possibly sore, eyes resulting from liver fire rising.
Urinary symptoms such as painful, hot urination perhaps with swollen genitalia, dark and/or turbid urine from damp heat accumulation in the lower jiao.
Leukorrhea of yellow color with a strong odor.

Cautions and Contraindications

Not for long term use.
Not for patients who present with yin, yang, and/or blood deficiency.
Use with caution with patients that present with spleen qi deficiency.

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Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Long Dan Xie Gan Wan

Long Dan Xie Gan Wan Related Conditions and Patterns

Deafness (Hearing Loss)Headache Hypochondriac Pain Leukorrhea

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Liver Fire Liver and Gallbladder Damp Heat

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What Are Some Common Combinations For Long Dan Xie Gan Wan?

Clinical Formula Combinations and Modifications

Si Wu Wan - Nonspecific Vaginitis, Genital Eczema
Yu Dai Wan - Yellow Vaginal Discharge

Notes From Our Clinicians For Long Dan Xie Gan Wan

Staff Clinical Notes

This formula can treat manifestations of liver fire in all three jiaos or any combination of them.

Long Dan Xie Gan Wan Has 10Ingredients

Chai Hu

Thorowax Root, Bupleurum

Appears in the Herbs That Release The Exterior Wind Heat category

Usages

Clears shao yang disorders and reduces fever - alternating chills and fever, bitter taste in the mouth, irritability, vomiting, stifling sensation in the chest.
Relieves liver qi stagnation (often used with Bai Shao) - vertigo, menstrual disorders, chest and flank pain, the most common herb to treat stress, irritability, depression, etc.; also for liver and spleen disharmony - bloating, nausea, indigestion, flank pain.
Raises yang qi in spleen and stomach deficiency patterns (often used with Sheng Ma) - prolapsed organ, diarrhea, hemorrhoids.

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Che Qian Zi

Plantago Seeds

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category

Usages

Promotes urination, clears heat - edema, lin syndromes due to damp-heat, generally in the lower warmer.
Solidifies the stool - diarrhea with damp-heat or damp-summerheat.
Clears the eyes - liver and kidney deficiency (dry eyes or cataracts) or heat in the liver channel (red, painful, swollen eyes and sensitive to light).
Lung heat - expels phlegm, stops cough.

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Dang Gui

Chinese Angelica Root

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Blood category

Usages

Tonifies the blood, regulates menses - pallid, ashen complexion, tinnitus, blurred vision, palpitations, irregular menses, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea.
Invigorates/harmonizes the blood, disperses cold - important herb to stop pain due to blood stasis - abdominal pain, trauma, carbuncles due to blood stasis, chronic bi.
Moistens dry intestines due to blood deficiency.
Reduces swellings, expels pus, generates flesh - sores.

Gan Cao

Licorice Root

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Qi category

Usages

Tonifies the spleen and augments qi - spleen deficiency w/shortness of breath, fatigue, loose stools (si jun zi tong).
Qi and/or blood deficiency w/irregular pluse or palpitations (Zhi Gan Cao Tang).
Moistens the lungs and stops cough - heat/cold in the lungs (Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang).
Clears heat and toxic fire (raw) - carbuncles, sores, sore throat due to fire toxin (internally or topically).
Alleviates pain and stops spasms - abdomen or legs (Shao Yao Gan Cao Tang).
Often used to harmonize and/or moderate characteristics of other herbs.
Antidote for toxic substances (internally and topically).

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Huang Qin

Baical Skullcap Root, Scutellaria

Appears in the Herbs That Clear Heat and Dry Dampness category

Usages

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.

Long Dan Cao

Chinese Gentian Root, Gentiana

Appears in the Herbs That Clear Heat and Dry Dampness category

Usages

Drains damp-heat from the liver and gallbladder channels - red, swollen, sore throat, eyes, and/or ears, sudden deafness, jaundice, pain, swelling or dampness in the genital region, or foul smelling vaginal discharge and itching.
Clears ascending liver fire - headache, red eyes; liver wind-heat with fever, spasms, convulsions, flank pain.

Mu Tong

Akebia Caulis

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category

Usages

Promotes urination, drains heat from the heart through the small intestine - irritability with sores of the mouth or tongue, scanty urination, lin syndrome, edema.
Promotes lactation, unblocks the blood vessels - insufficient lactation, less commonly for amenorrhea and bi-syndrome.

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Sheng Di Huang

Rehmannia

Appears in the Herbs That Cool The Blood category

Usages

Clears Heat, Cools Blood. High fever, thirst, scarlet tongue, hemorrhage due to heat in the Blood.
Nourishes Yin, Generates Fluids. Yin Deficiency with heat signs with injury to body fluids. Dry mouth, low-grade fever, constipation, throat pain from yin deficiency.
Cools Ascending Heart Fire (HT, LV). Mouth and tongue sores, irritability, insomnia, malar flush.
Wasting thirst disorder.

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Ze Xie

Water Plantain Root

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category

Usages

Promotes urination, drains damp-heat in the lower burner - urinary difficulty, edema, diarrhea.
Drains deficient kidney fire - heat signs, dizziness, tinnitus.

Zhi Zi

Cape Jasmine Fruit, Gardenia

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Fire category

Usages

Clears heat (Heart and Liver), eliminates irritability - heat patterns with fever, restlessness, insomnia, delirium, stifling sensation in the chest.
Drains damp heat - lin (urinary dysfunction) syndrome due to damp-heat in the lower warmer, damp-heat and constrained liver and gallbladder causing jaundice, damp-heat in the gall bladder and triple heater channels of the face - eyes, nose, sores in the mouth and face.
Cools the blood, stops bleeding - nosebleed, blood in vomit, stool, urine; (needs to partially charred).
Topically for blood stasis due to trauma, reduces swelling.

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