Prescription for Clearing away Summer-heat by Expelling Pathogenic Heat
Bi Yu San (碧玉散): Classic TCM Formula
Name
Bi Yu San
Actions
Clear summer-heat and promote diuresis, remove toxicity, cool blood and arrest convulsion.
The Prescription of 碧玉散
The Effect of 碧玉散
Indications
Lassitude due to summer-heat, diarrhea with thrist, chest pain with hemoptysis, nose bleeding, hematemesis, pharyngitis, epilepsy, mumps, aphtha, oliguria with dark urine, epidemic eruption.
Dosage and administration
Decoct 6~15 g. It should be wrapped during decocting.
Notes for 碧玉散
Origin
It is a mixture of Hua Shi, Gan Cao and Qing Dai.
Sources and further reading
We cite classical materia medica and modern reference works. This article is health education, not medical advice.
- Shennong Bencao Jing (The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica), Han dynasty.
- Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica), Li Shizhen, 1578.
- Chinese Pharmacopoeia, current edition — identity, quality and safety monographs.
- NCCIH and WHO reference material on traditional medicine safety.
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