Formula for Clearing Heat and Dispelling Summer-Heat

Formula for Clearing Heat and Dispelling Summer-Heat,Clears summer-heat, drains dampness, and dispels heat. Indicated for summer-heat and warm-heat syndromes, summer-heat fever, summer-heat diarrhea, and autumn heat.

Formulas Name : Formula for Clearing Heat and Dispelling Summer-Heat

Chinese Name : 清凉涤暑方

Drug Formulation

Talc 9 g, raw licorice 2.4 g, Artemisia annua 4.5 g, white mung beans 3 g, forsythia 9 g, Poria cocos 9 g, Akebia 3 g, one slice of watermelon rind.

Source

*Treatise on Epidemic Diseases*

Benefits

Clears summer-heat, drains dampness, and dispels heat. Indicated for summer-heat and warm-heat syndromes, summer-heat fever, summer-heat diarrhea, and autumn heat.

Instructions for Use

Decoct in water and take orally. The key diagnostic criteria for this formula are summer heat-induced fever, loss of appetite, diarrhea, and a greasy tongue coating.In modern times, it is commonly used to treat heat exhaustion, heatstroke, dysentery, viral pneumonia, and acute enteritis. For example, if there is fever with slight aversion to wind and cold, add Lonicera japonica, Chrysanthemum, and Mulberry leaf; for cough, add Apricot kernel and Trichosanthes peel; for severe heat, add raw Gypsum and Scutellaria baicalensis; for a thick, greasy tongue coating, add Agastache and Eupatorium; for diarrhea, add Coptis and Pueraria root.

Formula for Clearing Heat and Dispelling Summer-Heat,*Treatise on Epidemic Diseases*,Clears summer-heat, drains dampness, and dispels heat. Indicated for summer-heat and warm-heat syndromes, summer-heat fever, summer-heat diarrhea, and autumn heat.

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