Qing Hao Bie Jia Wan Functional Groupings

• Primary Category: Clear Heat
• Subcategory: Clear Heat From Deficiency

Bie Jia

Chinese Soft Turtle Shell

Usages

• Nourish yin, anchor yang - yin deficiency with fever, steaming bone, night sweats, often used when accompanied with internal liver wind symptoms.
• Invigorate blood, promotes menses, dissipates nodules - chest and flank accumulations causing pain, amenorrhea, malarial disorders with palpable masses, excessive menses due to heat in the blood.

Qing Hao

Wormwood

Usages

• Clears summer heat - fever, headache, dizziness, stifling sensation in the chest.
• Clears deficient fever - unremitting fever or night fever with no sweating (from blood deficiency or sequel of febrile disease).
• Cools the blood, stops bleeding - purpuric rash, nosebleed due to heat in the blood.
• Malarial disorders - alternating fever and chills.

Zhi Mu

Anemarrhena Rhizome

Usages

• Clears heat, drains fire - high fever, irritability, thirst, and a rapid flooding pulse in patterns of excessive heat in the lungs and/or stomach; cough due to lung heat with thick yellow sputum.
• Nourishes yin, moistens dryness - deficiency of lung and kidney yin, night sweats, steaming bone disorder, irritability, afternoon or low-grade fevers, bleeding gums, five-center heat; also for kidney heat signs - spermatorrhea, nocturnal emission, high sexual desire.
• Generates fluids and clears heat - oral ulcers and inflammation due to yin deficiency, wasting and thirsting disorder.

This formula has cautions, see details