Emergency White Decoction，Formula from *Essentials of Clinical Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine*; name cited in *Famous Formulas Through the Ages*.，Acute leukemia, characterized by alternating chills and fever, headache, chest distress and nausea, restless sleep, mental confusion and delirium, sweating and dry mouth, sore and swollen throat, bleeding from the mouth and nose, a yellow, greasy tongue coating (or coarse, or dry and charred-black), a red tip of the tongue, and a洪数 or滑大 pulse.
Emergency White Decoction
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Formulas Name : Emergency White Decoction
Chinese Name : 急白汤
Drug Formulation
15g honeysuckle, 15g forsythia, 1.5g rhinoceros horn powder (to be taken as a powder), 6g belamcanda, 9g isatis root, 15g trichosanthes root, 9g Beijing red peony root, 9g powdered moutan bark, 6g raw gardenia, 6g roasted gardenia, 30g dried reed root, 15g light bamboo leaves.
Source
Formula from *Essentials of Clinical Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine*; name cited in *Famous Formulas Through the Ages*.
Benefits
Acute leukemia, characterized by alternating chills and fever, headache, chest distress and nausea, restless sleep, mental confusion and delirium, sweating and dry mouth, sore and swollen throat, bleeding from the mouth and nose, a yellow, greasy tongue coating (or coarse, or dry and charred-black), a red tip of the tongue, and a洪数 or滑大 pulse.
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Emergency White Decoction,Acute leukemia, characterized by alternating chills and fever, headache, chest distress and nausea, restless sleep, mental confusion and delirium, sweating and dry mouth, sore and swollen throat, bleeding from the mouth and nose, a yellow, greasy tongue coating (or coarse, or dry and charred-black), a red tip of the tongue, and a洪数 or滑大 pulse.