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Xiao Qing Long Wan TCM Herbal Formula

  • English Name: Minor Blue Dragon Pills
  • Pinyin Name: Xiao Qing Long Wan
  • Chinese Character: 小青龙丸
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How Is Xiao Qing Long Wan Categorized?

Xiao Qing Long Wan Functional Groupings

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Sub Categories Within The Release the Exterior Category

Release Early Stage Exterior DisordersRelease Exterior ColdRelease Exterior Disorders with Head and Neck SymptomsRelease Exterior Disorders with Interior DeficiencyRelease Exterior Wind HeatRelease Exterior-Interior Excess

There Are 11 Formulas In Our Release the Exterior Category

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How Is Xiao Qing Long Wan Used Clinically?

Xiao Qing Long Wan Usages and Indications

  • Cold/flu like symptoms such as aversion to cold, cough, clear watery phlegm -from exterior wind cold invasion.
  • Wheezing, heavy sensation, edema due to interior water accumulation.

Cautions and Contraindications

Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Xiao Qing Long Wan

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Xiao Qing Long Wan Related Conditions and Patterns

AsthmaCommon ColdCoughFever

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Lung Wind Invasion - Wind Cold

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Notes From Our Clinicians For Xiao Qing Long Wan

Staff Clinical Notes

  • This formula is specifically for exterior wind-cold with interior water accumulation.  

Xiao Qing Long Wan Has 5Ingredients

Bai Shao


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White Peony Root


Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Blood category

Usages

  • Nourishes the blood and regulates menstrual problems due to blood deficiency (pale, lusterless complexion and nails) - menstrual dysfunction, vaginal discharge, uterine bleeding - very common herb for gynecological disorders (Si Wu Tang).
  • Calms liver yang, alleviates pain from constrained liver qi or disharmony between the liver and the spleen due to liver yang rising - cramping and spasms (limbs and abdomen), abdominal pain from dysentery, headache and dizziness.
  • Preserves yin, adjusts ying and wei levels - vaginal discharge and spermatorrhea, exterior wind-cold from deficiency with continuous sweating, spontaneous sweating, night sweats.

This formula has cautions, see details

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

Gan Jiang


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Dried Ginger Root


Appears in the Herbs That Warm the Interior and Expel Cold category

Usages

  • Warms the middle and expels cold - warms spleen and stomach both in conditions of excess due to externally contacted cold, as well as cold from deficiency due to yang qi deficiency.
  • Rescues devastated yang, expels interior cold - very weak pulse and cold limbs.
  • Warms the lungs and transforms phlegm - lung cold with thin, watery or white sputum.
  • Warms the channels, stops bleeding - hemorrhage of various types, especially for uterine bleeding (must be due to cold - chronic and pale in color, with cold limbs, soggy pulse).

Gui Zhi


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Cinnamon Twig


Appears in the Herbs That Release The Exterior Wind Cold category

Usages

  • Releases muscle layer and adjusts ying and wei qi levels
  • Useful in wind-cold-damp bi syndromes to warm channels and disperse cold
  • Resolves blood stagnation particularly from cold - dysmenorrhea
  • Unblocks yang qi in the chest - shortness of breath, chest pain, palpitations
  • Resolve edema and accumulation of cold phlegm

This formula has cautions, see details

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

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