Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin Wan Immortals Formula For Sustaining Life - TCM Herbal Formula

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

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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

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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 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.

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Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin Wan

Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin Wan Related Conditions and Patterns

Acne Dysentary Herpes Mastitis Pneumonia Psoriasis Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)Tonsillitis Ulcerative Colitis

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Large Intestine Damp Heat Liver and Gallbladder Damp Heat Phlegm Fire

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Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin Wan Has 13Ingredients

Jin Yin Hua

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

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

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Bai Zhi

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

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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.

Chi Shao

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.

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Ru Xiang

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.

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Mo Yao

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.

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Zhe Bei Mu

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.

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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.

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Chuan Shan Jia

Pangolin Scales

Appears in the Herbs That Invigorate Blood category

Usages

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

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.

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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).

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