Xie Xin Wan Drain the Epigastrium Formula - TCM Herbal Formula | Chinese Medicine Theory

Names Of Xie Xin Wan

Xie Xin Wan TCM Herbal Formula

English Name: Drain the Epigastrium Formula
Pinyin Name: Xie Xin Wan

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How Is Xie Xin Wan Categorized?

Xie Xin 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 23 Formulas In Our Clear Heat Category

How Is Xie Xin Wan Used Clinically?

Xie Xin Wan Usages and Indications

Signs of damp-heat with interior clumping which may settle into the abdominal region and/or rise upward to the head. Fever, irritability, red eyes, constipation, dark urine, flushed face - middle warmer issues - jaundice, dysentery, tongue/mouth ulcers.

Pulse will be be wiry and rapid and the Tongue will be red, swollen with a yellow greasy tongue coating.

Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Xie Xin Wan

Xie Xin Wan Related Conditions and Patterns

Constipation Diarrhea Fever Headache Hepatitis (B or C)Jaundice Migraines Trigeminal Neuralgia

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Bladder Damp Heat Large Intestine Damp Heat Liver and Gallbladder Damp Heat Spleen and Stomach Damp Heat

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Xie Xin Wan Has 3Ingredients

Da Huang

Rhubarb

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Downward category

Usages

Drains heat and purges accumulations - high fever, profuse sweating, thirst, constipation, abdominal distention and pain, delirium, yellow tongue coating, full pulse which indicates intestinal heat excess or yang ming stage illness.
Drains heat from the blood - blood in the stool from bleeding hemorrhoids or heat in the intestine; vomting blood or nosebleed accompanied by constipation; painful eyes or fire toxin sores due to heat in the blood level.
Drains damp-heat via the stool - jaundice, dysentery, lin syndrome.
Invigorates the blood and dispels blood stasis - amenorrhea, abdominal masses, fixed pain due to blood stasis (recent and long-term blood stasis).
Clears heat and reduces fire toxicity - for burns, hot skin.

This formula has cautions, see details

Huang Lian

Coptis Rhizome

Appears in the Herbs That Clear Heat and Dry Dampness category

Usages

Drains fire, relieves toxicity - high fever, irritability, disorientation, delirium, painful, red eyes, red tongue, sore throat, boils, carbuncles, abscesses.
Clears heat, drains dampness - for damp-heat in the stomach or intestine, diarrhea or dysenteric disorder, vomiting and/or acid regurgitation due to stomach heat.
Clears heart fire - irritability, insomnia.
Clears heat and stops bleeding - nosebleed, blood in the urine, stool, vomiting due to hot blood.
Topically for red, painful eyes and ulcerations of the tongue and mouth.

Huang Qin

Baical Skullcap Root, Scutellaria

Appears in the Herbs That Clear Heat and Dry Dampness category

Usages

Clears heat, drains fire, especially from the upper warmer - heat patterns with fever, irritability, thirst, cough, thick, yellow sputum, hot sores and swellings.
Clears heat, dries dampness - damp-heat in the stomach or intestines, diarrhea, dysentery; damp warm-febrile disease with fever, stifling sensation in the chest, thirst with no desire to drink; damp-heat in the lower jiao - lin syndrome; damp-heat jaundice.
Clears heat, stops bleeding - vomiting and/or coughing of blood, nosebleed, blood in the stool.
Clears heat, calms the fetus - restless fetus due to heat.
Sedates liver yang rising - headache, irritability, red eyes, bitter taste, flushed face.