Pu Ji Xiao Du Wan Functional Groupings

• Primary Category: Clear Heat
• Subcategory: Clear Heat and Relieve Toxicity

Huang Qin

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Baical Skullcap Root, Scutellaria

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.

Xuan Shen

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Ningpo Figwort Root, Scrophularia

Usages

• Clears Heat, Cools Blood. Bleeding, fever, dry mouth, purplish tongue.
• Nourishes Yin. Particularly for the sequel of warm febrile disease with constipation, irritability.
• Drains Fire, Relieves Toxicity. Swollen, red eyes, sore throat.
• Softens Harness (salty), Dissipates phlegm fire nodules. Swollen, sore throat, neck lumps.

This formula has cautions, see details

Chai Hu

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Thorowax Root, Bupleurum

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.

This formula has cautions, see details

Gan Cao

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Licorice Root

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).

This formula has cautions, see details

Niu Bang Zi

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Great Burdock Fruit, Arctium

Usages

• Expels wind-heat (acrid), benefits throat - fever, cough, sore, red, swollen throat.
• Clears heat (bitter, cold), relieves toxicity, vents rashes - red swellings, carbuncles, mumps, acute febrile rashes, early stages of measles with incomplete expression.
• Moistens intestines (rich plant oil - slippery) - constipation due to wind-heat (cold nature of the herb).

This formula has cautions, see details

Ma Bo

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Fruiting Body of Puffball, Lasiosphaera

Usages

• Clears the lung, relieves fire toxicity, and improves the throat - fire toxin affecting the throat causing painful, swollen throat, loss of voice, cough due to lung heat.
• Topically to stop bleeding, particularly in the oral cavity and lips.

Jiang Can

Silkworm

Usages

• Extinguishes liver wind, stops spasms and convulsions - childhood convulsions or facial paralysis, seizures from liver-wind or wind-phlegm-heat.
• Expels wind, stops pain - headache, red eyes, sore, swollen throat from an OPI or liver wind, loss of voice.
• Transforms phlegm, dissipates nodules - phlegm-heat scrofula and other phlegm nodules.
• Expels wind and stops itching.