Search for Herbal Teas Recipes by Symptom:

Coptis and Scutellaria Decoction

Disclaimer: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. All references in this article to TCM syndrome differentiation, herbal medicines, teas, and decoctions are intended to promote TCM culture and are provided solely for educational and reference purposes.

Coptis and Scutellaria Decoction,For Yangming warm disease characterized by dry retching, a bitter taste in the mouth, and thirst, where purgation is not yet indicated.

Formulas Name : Coptis and Scutellaria Decoction

Chinese Name : 黄连黄芩汤

Drug Formulation

Coptis (Huanglian) 2 qian, Scutellaria (Huangqin) 2 qian, Curcuma (Yujin) 1 qian 5 fen, Fermented Soybeans (Xiangdoudi) 2 qian.

Source

From *Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 2.

Benefits

For Yangming warm disease characterized by dry retching, a bitter taste in the mouth, and thirst, where purgation is not yet indicated.

Instructions for Use

Add 5 cups of water, boil down to 2 cups, and divide into 2 doses.

Coptis and Scutellaria Decoction,From *Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 2.,For Yangming warm disease characterized by dry retching, a bitter taste in the mouth, and thirst, where purgation is not yet indicated.

More Herbs Formulas

Lead Sulfate Pills

Lead Sulfate Pills,From *Shenghui*, Volume 85.,For children with febrile convulsions, restlessness and palpitations, and congestion of phlegm and saliva.

Taiyi Red Pill

Taiyi Red Pill,From *Treasures of Family Heritage*, Middle Volume.,For stroke, with accumulated phlegm beneath the diaphragm, resulting in paralysis of the limbs or loss of consciousness.

Tianma Herb Decoction

Tianma Herb Decoction,*Wai Tai*, Volume 34, citing *Ji Yan Fang*.,For mastitis, spreading, yellow, festering, and hot sores; genital ulcers with itching and dampness; and scalp sores in children.

Psoriasis-Relieving Pills

Psoriasis-Relieving Pills,*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 378.,For epilepsy: even if the condition has already resolved, if the root cause remains unaddressed, it will persist into adulthood.

Changlian Pills

Changlian Pills,*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Wuhan formula).,Blood in the stool; anal prolapse and swelling.

Earth Horse Mane Pills.

Earth Horse Mane Pills.,*Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 18.,For children with injury to the spleen and stomach accompanied by uncontrollable vomiting.

Ephedra Decoction Pills

Ephedra Decoction Pills,From *Shenghui*, Volume 20.,For paralysis caused by wind, swelling and fullness of the limbs, and pain in the joints.

Ganjī Powder

Ganjī Powder,*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Tianjin Formula).,For food stagnation, malnutrition, roundworms, pinworms, tapeworms, and all intestinal parasites; abdominal distension and pain; sallow complexion and emaciation; and indigestion.

Papaya Pill

Papaya Pill,*Chuanxin Shiyong Fang*, Volume 1.,For severe pain in the feet and knees, making it impossible to walk long distances or stand for extended periods.

Gardenia and Phellodendron Bark Decoction

Gardenia and Phellodendron Bark Decoction,From *Treatise on Cold and Heat Disorders*, Volume 5.,For cold damage where damp-heat is stagnant in the muscle-skin layer, presenting with fever and jaundice.

Clear the Heart and Drain Fire Pills

Clear the Heart and Drain Fire Pills,*Complete Book of Experience in the Treatment of Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 3.,Tinea.

Chicken Gizzard and Maoguan Root Decoction

Chicken Gizzard and Maoguan Root Decoction,From *Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.,For concurrent water retention and bloating, as well as isolated abdominal distension, isolated water retention with distension, and isolated bloating.

Enhanced Six-Spirit Decoction

Enhanced Six-Spirit Decoction,*Gu’s Medical Pathways*, Volume 4.,For phlegm stagnating in the chest, causing the clear qi to fail to rise and the meridians to become obstructed, thereby leading to leukorrhea.

Camel Fat Wine

Camel Fat Wine,*Nourishing the Elderly and Honoring Parents*.,For elderly patients with wind-heat-induced restlessness and toxicity, stubborn numbness and loss of sensation, and symptoms of “five slacknesses and six urgencies.”

Soil-Dispersing Decoction

Soil-Dispersing Decoction,From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.,For fullness and distension in the chest and abdomen caused by stagnation of spleen and stomach qi, occasionally accompanied by borborygmi, frequent urge to defecate, and in severe cases, chest pain, fullness in both flanks, vomiting or regurgitation—including spitting of phlegm and saliva, vomiting clear fluid, or … Read more

Wild Fox Meat Formula

Wild Fox Meat Formula,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 188.,For convulsive epilepsy and wind-induced epilepsy, characterized by a dazed and confused state of mind, incoherent speech, uncontrolled singing and laughter, accompanied by accumulated cold in the five viscera, and cold-heat symptoms caused by poisonous spells.

Decoction of Goji Berries for Eye Drops

Decoction of Goji Berries for Eye Drops,*Shenghui*, Volume 32.,For red, painful eyes that remain closed day and night.

Decoction for Dispelling Wind and Clearing the Liver

Decoction for Dispelling Wind and Clearing the Liver,*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 65.,Ulcers with exudate.

Supplemented Disinfecting Decoction

Supplemented Disinfecting Decoction,*Mirror of Surgical Medicine*.,Sore throat caused by seasonal toxins.

Qi-Harmonizing Decoction

Qi-Harmonizing Decoction,From *Yu’an*, Volume 5.,For postpartum lower back pain, inability to turn over, and insufficient expulsion of lochia.

Four-Ingredient Cyperus Pill

Four-Ingredient Cyperus Pill,From *National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formulations* (Sha Shi Formula).,For women with irregular menstruation and abdominal distension due to qi stagnation.

Toxin-Resolving and Tissue-Regenerating Powder

Toxin-Resolving and Tissue-Regenerating Powder,From *The Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 2.,For chronic sores outside the perineum that refuse to heal, and all types of toxic sores.

Gu Shen Decoction

Gu Shen Decoction,*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 10.,Summer lethargy.

Formula for Severe Cough

Formula for Severe Cough,From *Compendium of Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 5.,Dispersion of lung qi, leading to prolonged cough and loss of voice.

Opening and Closing Pill

Opening and Closing Pill,*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 3.,When ear pain has subsided but tinnitus persists, and pressing the ear with the hand temporarily alleviates the ringing, the condition is attributed to yang deficiency with qi stagnation.