Names Of Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin Wan

Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin Wan TCM Herbal Formula
- English Name: Immortals Formula For Sustaining Life
- Pinyin Name: Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin Wan
- Alternate Names: Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin, Angelica and Mastic Combination, Sublime Formula for Sustaining Life, Miraculous Decoction for Local Infection
- Chinese Character: 仙方活命飲
How Is Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin Wan Categorized?
Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin Wan Functional Groupings
- Primary Category: Clear Heat
- Subcategory: Clear Heat and Relieve Toxicity
There Are 23 Formulas In Our Clear Heat Category
How Is Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin Wan Used Clinically?
Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin Wan Usages and Indications
- Generally for short-term use with early stage heat toxins - sores, carbuncles, boils, styes, acne. Swollen and painful skin lesions with other heat signs (chills/fever).
- Breast abscesses, mastitis.
- Uses for rheumatoid arthritis and/or psoriasis with the right underlying diagnosis.
- Internal abscesses from blood stasis.
Cautions and Contraindications
- Generally not for long-term use.
- Use with caution with spleen qi deficiency.
- Avoid with yin fire.
Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin Wan

Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin Wan Related Conditions and Patterns
AcneDysentaryHerpesMastitisPneumoniaPsoriasisRheumatoid Arthritis (RA)TonsillitisUlcerative Colitis
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Large Intestine Damp HeatLiver and Gallbladder Damp HeatPhlegm Fire
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Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin Wan Has 13Ingredients
Jin Yin Hua
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Honeysuckle Flower, Lonicera
Appears in the Herbs That Clear Heat and Relieve Toxicity category
Usages
- Clear heat, relieve toxic fire - hot, painful swellings in the throat, breast, eyes; intestinal abscesses.
- Expel wind-heat - fever, aversion to wind, sore throat, headache; also for summer-heat.
- Clear damp heat from the lower jiao - dysentery, lin syndrome.
- Stem, Ren Dong Teng, is used for similar functions - abscesses, sores, damp-heat bi syndromes.
Fang Feng
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Ledebouriella root, siler
Appears in the Herbs That Release The Exterior Wind Cold category
Usages
- Releases exterior, expel wind-cold (headache, chills, body ache)
- Bi-Syndromes, Wind-Damp, alleviates pain, relieves spasms (not very strong, only as a supporting herb)
- Trembling hands and/or feet
- Spleen/Liver intestinal issues - painful diarrhea, bright blood in stool
- Migraines
This formula has cautions, see details
Bai Zhi
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Angelica Root
Appears in the Herbs That Release The Exterior Wind Cold category
Usages
- Expels wind-cold, dampness
- Opens nasal passages, sinus congestion (particularly with green discharge), alleviates pain (especially in the head region)
- Resolve wind-cold symptoms especially with headaches (yangming - ST), supraorbital pain, congestion
- Useful for swollen gums and toothache
This formula has cautions, see details
Dang Gui
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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.
Chi Shao
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Red Peony Root
Appears in the Herbs That Invigorate Blood category
Usages
- Invigorates blood, dispels stasis (stronger than Mu Dan Pi) - dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, abdominal pain and masses, traumatic pain associated with swelling, early stages of abscesses and boils.
- Clears heat, cools the blood (especially for excess heat in the blood) - for heat entering the blood level with fever, purple tongue, skin blotches, bleeding, gyn issues.
- Clears liver fire - for red swollen, painful eyes.
This formula has cautions, see details
Ru Xiang
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Frankincense
Appears in the Herbs That Invigorate Blood category
Usages
- Invigorate blood, dispel blood stasis, alleviate pain - trauma, carbuncles and swellings, chest and/or abdominal pain.
- Relax the sinews, invigorates the channels, alleviates pain - bi syndromes, rigidity, spasms.
- Reduces swellings, generates flesh - topically for sores, carbuncles, traumatic injury.
This formula has cautions, see details
Mo Yao
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Myrrh
Appears in the Herbs That Invigorate Blood category
Usages
- Invigorate blood, dispel blood stasis, reduces swelling, alleviate pain - trauma, sores, carbuncles, swellings, abdominal masses, painful obstruction, chest pain, abdominal pain, amenorrhea.
- Promotes healing of chronic non-healing sores.
This formula has cautions, see details
Zhe Bei Mu
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Fritillaria Bulb
Appears in the Herbs That Cool and Transform Phlegm Heat category
Usages
- Clears and transforms phlegm-heat - acute lung heat with productive cough.
- Clears heat, dissipates nodules (better than Chuan Bei Mu - for phlegm-fire congealing and causing neck swellings, lung and breast abscesses and swellings.
This formula has cautions, see details
Tian Hua Fen
Trichosanthes Root
Appears in the Herbs That Cool and Transform Phlegm Heat category
Usages
- Clears and drains lung heat, transforms phlegm, moistens lung dryness.
- Drains heat, generates fluid (fluids injured) - thirst, irritability, wasting and thirsting disorder, cough, thick sputum.
- Relieves toxicity, expels pus - toxic hot carbuncles, breast abscess.
This formula has cautions, see details
Chuan Shan Jia
Pangolin Scales
Appears in the Herbs That Invigorate Blood category
Usages
- Not used commonly due to the pangolin being endangered. Generally Wang Bu Liu Xing (Vaccaraie Semen), or dried seeds of cowherb Vaccaria segetalis can be used as effective supplements as can many other combinations.
- Disperses blood stasis, unblocks menses, promotes lactation - amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, insufficient lactation due to blood stasis.
- Reduces swellings and promotes discharge of pus - abscesses and boils (topically).
- Expels wind-damp from the channels.
Zao Jiao Ci
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Spine of Honeylocust Plant
Appears in the Herbs That Transform Phlegm Cold category
Usages
- Reduces swellings, discharges pus, invigorates blood, reduces abscesses - for early stages of swollen sores to encourage suppuration or to burst.
- Expels wind, kills parasites - leprosy and ringworm.
This formula has cautions, see details
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
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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
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