Xin Yi Qing Fei Wan Magnolia Flower Drink To Clear The Lungs - TCM Herbal Formula

Names Of Xin Yi Qing Fei Wan

Xin Yi Qing Fei Wan TCM Herbal Formula

English Name: Magnolia Flower Drink To Clear The Lungs
Pinyin Name: Xin Yi Qing Fei Wan
Chinese Character: 辛夷清肺丸

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How Is Xin Yi Qing Fei Wan Categorized?

Xin Yi Qing Fei Wan Functional Groupings

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

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Sub Categories Within The Release the Exterior Category

Release Early Stage Exterior Disorders Release Exterior Cold Release Exterior Disorders with Head and Neck Symptoms Release Exterior Disorders with Interior Deficiency Release Exterior Wind Heat Release Exterior-Interior Excess

There Are 10 Formulas In Our Release the Exterior Category

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How Is Xin Yi Qing Fei Wan Used Clinically?

Xin Yi Qing Fei Wan Usages and Indications

Colds and/or allergies with heat signs (yellow mucus and/or fever, etc.).
Chronic sinus congestions / issues, chronic sinusitis, chronic rhinitis, loss of smell.
Nasal polyps with the right underlying factors.
Difficult to resolve sinus issues with thick, sticky mucus.
Headaches from sinus congestion.

Cautions and Contraindications

May not be appropriate with heat signs from lung yin deficiency.

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Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Xin Yi Qing Fei Wan

Xin Yi Qing Fei Wan Related Conditions and Patterns

Common Cold Headache Nasal Polyps Rhinitis Sinus Infection Sinusitis

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Lung Wind Invasion - Wind Heat

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What Are Some Common Combinations For Xin Yi Qing Fei Wan?

Clinical Formula Combinations and Modifications

If there are more signs of wei qi deficiency (frequent infections from weak immunity), possibly combine with Yu Ping Feng Wan.
For more cold signs consider Xin Yi Wan.

Xin Yi Qing Fei Wan Has 10Ingredients

Bai He

Lily Bulb

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Yin category

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.

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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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.

Mai Men Dong

Ophiopogon Tuber

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Yin category

Usages

Moistens the lungs, stops cough - dry cough, coughing blood.
Augments stomach yin, generates fluids - dry tongue and mouth.
Clears heat and eliminates irritability due to yin deficiency or a warm-febrile disease in the ying level - particularly when symptoms are worse at night.
Moistens the intestines - constipation.

Pi Pa Ye

Loquat Leaf

Appears in the Herbs That Relieve Coughing and Wheezing category

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.

Sheng Ma

Black Cohosh Rhizome, Bugbane Rhizome

Appears in the Herbs That Release The Exterior Wind Heat category

Usages

Releases the exterior, vents muscles - accelerates the early stages of skin rashes, headache from wind-heat (forehead - stomach channel).
Clears heat, relieves toxicity - toxins in the upper or superficial areas, swelling, painful, sore gums, lips, and/or throat.
Raises yang, lifts spleen qi sinking (strong than Ge Gen) - for middle qi deficiency leading to shortness of breath, fatigue, prolapse of stomach, uterus, or rectum.
Serves to guide other herbs upwards.

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Shi Gao

Gypsum

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Fire category

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.

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Xin Yi Hua

Magnolia Flower

Appears in the Herbs That Release The Exterior Wind Cold category

Usages

Expels wind-cold
Sinus Headaches
Unblocks nasal passages

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Zhi Mu

Anemarrhena Rhizome

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Fire category

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.

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Zhi Zi

Cape Jasmine Fruit, Gardenia

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Fire category

Usages

Clears heat (Heart and Liver), eliminates irritability - heat patterns with fever, restlessness, insomnia, delirium, stifling sensation in the chest.
Drains damp heat - lin (urinary dysfunction) syndrome due to damp-heat in the lower warmer, damp-heat and constrained liver and gallbladder causing jaundice, damp-heat in the gall bladder and triple heater channels of the face - eyes, nose, sores in the mouth and face.
Cools the blood, stops bleeding - nosebleed, blood in vomit, stool, urine; (needs to partially charred).
Topically for blood stasis due to trauma, reduces swelling.

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