Qing Shu Yi Qi Tang Wan Clear Summer Heat and Augment the Qi - TCM Herbal Formula

Names Of Qing Shu Yi Qi Tang Wan

Qing Shu Yi Qi Tang Wan TCM Herbal Formula

English Name: Clear Summer Heat and Augment the Qi
Pinyin Name: Qing Shu Yi Qi Tang Wan

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How Is Qing Shu Yi Qi Tang Wan Categorized?

Qing Shu Yi Qi Tang Wan Functional Groupings

Primary Category: Clear Heat
Subcategory: Relieve Summerheat

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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 17 Formulas In Our Clear Heat Category

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How Is Qing Shu Yi Qi Tang Wan Used Clinically?

Qing Shu Yi Qi Tang Wan Usages and Indications

Please note that there are two formulas with the same name but slightly different compositions. One is from Wang's Wen Re Jing Wei and tonifies the yin more strongly, the other (which is the one discussed here) is from Li's Pi Wei Lun (Discussion of the Spleen and Stomach) and tonifies the spleen more strongly. Both have similar usages but are not directly interchangeable.
Clears summerheat and dries dampness - summer colds and flus, heatstroke - fever, fatigue, excessive sweating with loose stools and heaviness in the body.
Along with respiratory infections in the right cases certain types of asthma may be appropriate for this formula.
Dampheat related inflammatory condtions such as Colitis are approprirate with the right underlying factors.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with symptoms of spleen deficiency and heat.
Wtih the right underlying factors the range of perimenopausal symptoms may be appropriate - low libido, fatigue, water retention, fibroids, heavy cycles. Where this appear with spleen qi deficiency signs and kidney weakness, this formula may be appropriate.

Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Qing Shu Yi Qi Tang Wan

Qing Shu Yi Qi Tang Wan Related Conditions and Patterns

Common Cold Diarrhea Fibroids Flu Heat Stroke Menopause (Hot Flashes)Menorrhagia (Heavy Menstrual Bleeding)Ulcerative Colitis

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Spleen Qi Deficiency Spleen and Stomach Damp Heat Summer Heat

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Qing Shu Yi Qi Tang Wan Has 15Ingredients

Xi Yang Shen

American Ginseng Root

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Yin category

Usages

Benefits qi, generates fluids, nourishes yin - for yin deficiency with heat signs, weakness, irritability and thirst after a febrile disease.
Nurtures lung yin and clears fire from the lungs - wheezing, coughing up blood streaked sputum, loss of voice due to lung yin deficiency.

Huang Qi

Astragalus Root

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Qi category

Usages

Tonifies spleen qi - lack of appetite, fatigue, diarrhea.
Raises yang qi of spleen and stomach - prolapse of uterus, stomach, rectum, uterine bleeding.
Augments the wei qi and stabilizes the exterior - deficiency w/spontaneous sweating, frequent colds or shortness of breath.
Tonify qi and blood due to loss of blood - postpartum fever.
Edema from deficiency.
Promote discharge of pus, generate flesh - sores due to deficiency.

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.

Mai Men Dong

Ophiopogon Tuber

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Yin category

Usages

Moistens the lungs, stops cough - dry cough, coughing blood.
Augments stomach yin, generates fluids - dry tongue and mouth.
Clears heat and eliminates irritability due to yin deficiency or a warm-febrile disease in the ying level - particularly when symptoms are worse at night.
Moistens the intestines - constipation.

Wu Wei Zi

Schisandra Fruit/Seed

Appears in the Herbs That Stabilize and Bind category

Usages

Constrain leakage of lung qi, enriches kidney yin - chronic cough and wheezing due to kidney and lung deficiency.
Tonify the kidneys, bind the essence, stop diarrhea - nocturnal emission, spermatorrhea, leukorrhea, frequent urination, daybreak diarrhea.
Inhibits sweating, generates fluids - thirst with excess sweat, spontaneous sweating, nightsweats, xiao ke.
Quiet the spirit, calm the heart - irritability, palpitations, insomnia due to blood deficiency or kidney and heart yin injury.

This formula has cautions, see details

Bai Zhu

Atractylodes (White) Rhizome

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Qi category

Usages

Tonifies the spleen, augments qi, dries dampness - diarrhea, fatigue, lack of appetite, vomiting, edema.
Stabilizes the exterior and stops sweating - spontaneous sweating due to qi deficiency.
Calms the fetus - arising from spleen deficiency.

Huang Bai

Amur Cork Tree Bark, Phellodendron

Appears in the Herbs That Clear Heat and Dry Dampness category

Usages

Drains damp heat from the lower jiao - thick-yellow leukorrhea, foul-smelling diarrhea, dysentery; damp-heat pouring downward or hot leg qi - red, swollen, painful knees, legs, and/or feet; damp-heat jaundice.
Drains kidney fire with signs of yin deficiency - steaming bone disorder, night sweats, afternoon fever and sweating, nocturnal emissions, spermatorrhea.
Drains fire, relieves toxicity - sores and lesions of the skin.

Cang Zhu

Atractylodes

Appears in the Aromatic Herbs That Transform Dampness category

Usages

Strongly dries dampness, strengthens spleen - low appetite, diarrhea, epigastric distention, fatigue, vomiting, greasy tongue coat.
Expels wind-damp-cold (bi-syndrome) in extremities.
Clears damp-heat from lower burner (combine with clear-heat herbs, however, as this has a warm nature (for example, Er Miao San) - vaginal discharge, swollen and sore joints.
Induces sweating, release the exterior.
Improves vision.

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.

Sheng Ma

Black Cohosh Rhizome, Bugbane Rhizome

Appears in the Herbs That Release The Exterior Wind Heat category

Usages

Releases the exterior, vents muscles - accelerates the early stages of skin rashes, headache from wind-heat (forehead - stomach channel).
Clears heat, relieves toxicity - toxins in the upper or superficial areas, swelling, painful, sore gums, lips, and/or throat.
Raises yang, lifts spleen qi sinking (strong than Ge Gen) - for middle qi deficiency leading to shortness of breath, fatigue, prolapse of stomach, uterus, or rectum.
Serves to guide other herbs upwards.

This formula has cautions, see details

Ge Gen

Kudzu Root, Pueraria

Appears in the Herbs That Release The Exterior Wind Heat category

Usages

Releases muscles, clears heat - exterior disease in subcutaneous region and muscles (governed by spleen and stomach) - fever, headache, stiffness in the back and the neck.
Nourishes fluids, alleviates thirst - stomach heat, externally-contracted heat.
Vents measles - accelerates rash at early stages.
Alleviates diarrhea - diarrhea or dysenterial disorders due to heat; may be used for spleen deficiency diarrhea if combined with other herbs.
Alleviates symptoms of hypertension - headaches, dizziness, tinnitus.

Shen Qu

Medicated Leaven

Appears in the Herbs That Relieve Food Stagnation category

Usages

Reduces food stagnation, strengthens stomach - stomach cold with food stagnation or accumulation, with epigastric and abdominal fullness or distention, lack of appetite, borborygmus, and diarrhea.
Aids in mineral digestion and absorption.

Chen Pi

Tangerine Peel

Appears in the Herbs That Regulate The Qi category

Usages

Regulates Qi, improves transportive function of the spleen, relieves diaphragm - epigastric/abdominal distention, fullness, bloating, belching, nausea, vomiting (promotes movement of qi in general; specifically directing it downward - good for different types of nausea/vomiting).
Important herb for drying dampness and the transformation of phlegm - coughs with stifling sensation in the chest/diaphragm, and copious viscous sputum (qi-level herb).
Prevents stagnation - prevents cloying of tonifying herbs.
Ju Hong is the red part of the tangerine peel - it is more drying and aromatic.

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).

This formula has cautions, see details

Qing Pi

Green Tangerine Peel

Appears in the Herbs That Regulate The Qi category

Usages

Spreads liver Qi and breaks up stagnation - liver Qi stagnation symptoms such as distention and pain in the chest, breast, and/or hypochondriac regions; hernial pain.
Reduces food stagnation - pain in the epigastrium.
Dries dampness and transforms phlegm - malarial disorders w/phlegm, dampness, and breast abscesses.
Raises blood pressure.

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