C4-Formulas Wind Heat

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Sang Ju Yin ( Mulberry Leaf and Chrysanthemum Decoction)

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Actions: Release Exterior Wind Heat, Stop Coughing

Exterior Wind Heat

Indications: slight fever, cough, slight thirst, thin white tongue coat, floating rapid pulse


Wei Level
Fever, aversion to cold, headache, absence of sweating or scant sweating, cough, thirst, thin white tongue
coat, somewhat red tongue tip, floating rapid pulse (right cun)

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Yin Qiao San (Honeysuckle and Forsythia Decoction)

Back 2

Actions: Disperse Wind Heat, Clear Heat, Relieve Toxicity

Exterior Wind Heat
Onset of Wen Bing

Indications: Fever, slight or no chills, headache, thirst, cough, sore throat, red tipped tongue, thin white or
thin yellow tongue coat, floating, rapid pulse

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Bai Hu Tang / White Tiger Decoction

Back 3

Actions: Clear Qi-Level Heat, drain Stomach Fire, generate Fluids, alleviate thirst

Yangming Channel Syndrome

Indications: High fever with profuse sweating and aversion to heat, red face, severe thirst and irritability,
flooding forceful or slippery, rapid pulse. May also include headache, toothache or bleeding of the gums and
nose.

Qi Level
Fever, aversion to heat, thirst, sweating, flooding pulse, red tongue, yellow tongue coat

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Zhi Zi Chi Tang / Gardenia and Prepared Soybean Decoction

Back 4

Zhī Zǐ, Dàn Dòu Chĭ

Actions: Clear Heat and alleviate restlessness and irritability

Qi Level Heat Lingering in the Superficial aspects of Yangming

Indications: Fever, irritability, insomnia with tossing and turning in bed, stifling sensation in the chest with a
soft epigastrium, slightly yellow tongue coat, slightly rapid pulse; or strong floating pulse distally.

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Huang Lian Jie Du Tang / Coptis Decoction To Relieve Toxicity

Back 5

Actions: Drains fire and relieves toxicity

Excess Heat, Fire and Toxins in all 3 Jiao

Indications: High fever, irritability, a dry mouth and throat, incoherent speech, insomnia, dark urine, a red
tongue with a yellow coating, and a rapid, forceful pulse.

Also for nosebleed or vomiting of blood due to heat excess; carbuncles, deep-rooted boils, and other toxic
swellings; and dysenteric disorders or jaundice due to damp-heat

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Wu Wei Xiao Du Yin / Five Ingredient Decoction to Eliminate Toxin

Back 6

Actions: Clears heat, relieves toxicity, cools the xue, and reduces swelling.

Indications: All types of boils and carbuncles with localized erythema, swelling, heat, and pain
accompanied by fever, chills, a red tongue with a yellow coating, and a rapid pulse. Especially useful for
deep-rooted and hard lesions, which are said to resemble nails or chestnuts.

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Pu Ji Xiao Du Jin / Universal Benefit Decoction to Eliminate Toxin

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Actions: Clears heat, eliminates fire toxin, and disperses wind-heat.

Da Tou Wen (Swollen Head Febrile Disease 大头瘟) with the presence of Wind
Heat and Toxin in the Upper Jiao and Head

Indications: Strong fever and chills, redness, swelling, and burning pain of the head and face, dysfunction
of the throat, dryness and thirst, a red tongue with a powdery-white or yellow coating, and a floating, rapid,
and forceful pulse.

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Qing Ying Tang / Clear the Nutritive Level Decoction

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Actions: Clears the Ying level, Relieves Fire toxin, Drains Heat, Nourishes Yin

Heat in the Ying Level

Indications: high fever worse at night, severe irritability and restlessness, scarlet dry tongue, thin rapid
pulse. sometimes thirsty, some delirious, some faint indistinct erythema and purpura.

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Xi Jiao Di Huang Tang / Rhinoceros Horn and Rehmannia Decoction

Back 9

Actions: Clear Heat, Relieve Fire Toxin, Cool the Blood, Nourish the Yin, Dispel Blood Stasis, Stop
Bleeding

Heat in the Xue Level

Indications: Fever, bleeding (hematemesis, epistaxis, hematochezia, hematuria, rashes), black and tarry
stools (melena), abdominal distention and fullness, thirst with inability to swallow, scarlet tongue with
prickles, thin rapid pulse. may have delirium.

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Qing Wen Bai Du Yin / Clear Epidemics and Overcome Toxin Decoction

Back 10

Actions: Clears heat, relieves toxicity, cools the blood, and drains the fire.

Wen Yi (Warm Epidemics) due to Excess Heat and Toxins in the Qi and Blood Level

Indications: Intense fever, strong thirst, dry heaves, severe and stabbing headache, extreme irritability, and
in severe cases, delirious speech, rash, and nosebleed. Dark Red tongue, dark and scorched lips, rapid and
either floating and large or submerged and thin.

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Qing Shu Yi Qi Tang / Clear Summerheat and Augment the Qi Decoction

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Actions: Clear Summerheat, Augment the Qi, Nourish the Yin, and Generate Fluids

Summerheat damaging Qi and JinYe

Indications: Fever, profuse sweating, irritability, thirst, scanty and dark urine, desire to curl up, shortness of
breath, apathy, and deficient, rapid pulse.

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Liu Yi San / Six-to-One Powder

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Actions: Clear Summerheat, Resolve Dampness, Augment the Qi

Summerheat and Dampness

Indications: Fever, sweating, thirst, irritability, urinary difficulty, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, thin yellow and
greasy tongue coat, soggy rapid pulse.

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San Ren Tang / Three Nut Decoction

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Actions: Disseminates the qi, facilitates the qi mechanisms, and clears damp-heat

Early stage of Damp Warmth

Contraindications: Do not use unmodified for damp heat with emphasis on heat with intense yellow tongue
coat.