Prescriptions for Removing Pathogenic Heat and Toxic Material
Huang Lian Jie Du Tang (黄连解毒汤)
Name
Antidotal Decoction of Coptis
The Prescription of 黄连解毒汤
Source
The book Wai Tai Mi Yao
Ingredients
Huang Lian (Rhizoma Coptidis) 9 g;Huang Qin (Rudix Scutellariae) 6 g,Huang Bo (Cortex Phellodendri) 6 g,Zhi Zi (Fructus Gardeniae) 9 g.Explanation
Huang Lian: The principal drug, being bitter in flavor and cold in nature, dispelling pathogenic fire from the heart and the middle-Jiao.
Huang Qin: Purging fire in the upper-Jiao.
Huang Bo: Removing fire in the lower-Jiao.
Zhi Zi: Clearing away fire in the tri-Jiao, leading fire to go downward.
The Effect of 黄连解毒汤
Effect
Purging pathogenic fire to detoxicate.
Indications
Syndrome due to intense heat in the tri-Jiao which hasn't impaired body fluids, marked by high fever, dysphoria, dry mouth and throat, delirium, insomnia, or spitting blood, skin eruption, skin and external diseases of surgery, reddish tongue with yellowish coating, and rapid forceful pulse; including such diseases with the above symptoms as acute purulent infections such as phlegmon, hematosepsis, pyemia, dysentery, pneumonia and hematopathy.
Administrations
Decocted in water for oral dose to be taken twice.
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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