Yin Chen Hao Wan Artemisiae Scopariae Decoction - TCM Herbal Formula

Names Of Yin Chen Hao Wan

Yin Chen Hao Wan TCM Herbal Formula

English Name: Artemisiae Scopariae Decoction
Pinyin Name: Yin Chen Hao Wan
Chinese Character: 茵陈蒿丸

All Formulas

How Is Yin Chen Hao Wan Categorized?

Yin Chen Hao Wan Functional Groupings

Primary Category: Clear Heat
Subcategory: Clear Damp-Heat

All Functions

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 Yin Chen Hao Wan Used Clinically?

Yin Chen Hao Wan Usages and Indications

Used for a range of liver, gallbladder and pancreatic disorders arising from damp heat. Symptoms such as jaundice, urinary difficulty, nausea, bloating and more.
Western conditions could be cirrhosis, gallbladder disease, alcohol toxicity and more.
May involve other psychiatric conditions as well such as manic depression, anger outbursts, etc.

Cautions and Contraindications

Avoid in pregnancy.
Avoid with yin jaundice (jaundice with absense of heat signs, feeling cold, no redness in tongue).

All Cautions

Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Yin Chen Hao Wan

Yin Chen Hao Wan Related Conditions and Patterns

Chronic Cholecystitis Cirrhosis Hepatitis (B or C)Jaundice Liver Disease

All Conditions

Liver and Gallbladder Damp Heat

All Patterns

Yin Chen Hao Wan @ Our Yin Yang House Store

Yin Chen Hao Wan In Our Store
Yin Chen Hao Tang (Sun Ten)
Info

Add To Cart

Yin Chen Hao Wan @ Store

Yin Chen Hao 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

Yin Chen Hao

Yin Chen Hao Shoots and Leaves

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category

Usages

Main herb for Jaundice.
Clears damp heat from the liver and gallbladder - relieves jaundice (either damp heat or cold).
Clears heat, shao yang syndrome (intermittent fever and chills, bitter taste, stifling sensation in the chest, flank pain, dizziness, nausea).

This formula has cautions, see details

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.

This formula has cautions, see details

Where Do I Go Next?

TCM Formulas Formula Functions Yi Zi Wan Yin Qiao Wan Individual Herbs Formula Store TCM Patterns All Conditions TCM Theory

Recent Questions From Our Forum...

Have questions about yin chen hao wan? Or want to discuss treatment techniques? You may reach us and our community of practitioners by using our forums