Xin Yi Qing Fei Wan Functional Groupings

• Primary Category: Release the Exterior
• Subcategory: Release Exterior Disorders with Head and Neck Symptoms

Bai He

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Lily Bulb

Usages

• Moisten the lungs, clear heat, and stop coughing - cough from dry lungs or lung heat, sore throat.
• Clear heat and calm the spirit - low fever, insomnia, restlessness, irritability in the aftermath of a febrile disease, palpitations from qi and/or yin deficiency.

Huang Qin

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Baical Skullcap Root, Scutellaria

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.

Pi Pa Ye

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Loquat Leaf

Usages

• Transforms phlegm, clears lung heat - lung heat patterns with cough.
• Harmonizes the stomach, clears stomach heat, redirects rebellious stomach qi - nausea, vomiting, hiccups, belching.
• Often fried in honey to strengthen the lung moistening function, or in ginger juice to increase its ability to stop nausea and vomiting.

Shi Gao

Gypsum

Usages

• The most important herb to clear internal heat, especially in the qi and yang ming levels.
• Clears heat, drains fire (heavy, descending) - high fever with no chills, excessive thirst, sweating, flooding and big pulse (the "4 bigs"), irritability, red tongue with yellow coat.
• Clears excess lung heat - cough, wheezing, fever, thick yellow sputum.
• Clears blazing stomach fire - headache, toothache, painful and swollen gums.
• Topically for eczema, burns, ulcerated sores; may also be taken internally.

This formula has cautions, see details

Zhi Mu

Anemarrhena Rhizome

Usages

• Clears heat, drains fire - high fever, irritability, thirst, and a rapid flooding pulse in patterns of excessive heat in the lungs and/or stomach; cough due to lung heat with thick yellow sputum.
• Nourishes yin, moistens dryness - deficiency of lung and kidney yin, night sweats, steaming bone disorder, irritability, afternoon or low-grade fevers, bleeding gums, five-center heat; also for kidney heat signs - spermatorrhea, nocturnal emission, high sexual desire.
• Generates fluids and clears heat - oral ulcers and inflammation due to yin deficiency, wasting and thirsting disorder.

This formula has cautions, see details