Traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions that can clear away heat and detoxify

　　I believe everyone is familiar with "clearing heat and detoxifying". Under normal circumstances, when symptoms such as high fever, constipation and yellow urine, or redness, swelling, heat and pain, red tongue and yellow coating, you may use heat-clearing and detoxifying methods. How much do you know about heat-clearing and detoxifying prescriptions? Today, we will take stock of several commonly used traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions for clearing heat and detoxifying, hoping to help everyone.

　　Huanglian Jiedu Decoction

　　Composition: Coptis 9g, Scutellaria baicalensis and Phellodendron 6g each, Gardenia 9g.

　　Function: purges fire and detoxifies.

　　Indications: Triple burner fire poison heat syndrome. Severe fever and irritability, dry mouth and throat, incorrect speech and insomnia; or fever, vomiting blood, epistaxis; or heat that causes spots, body heat, and damp-heat jaundice; surgical carbuncle, ulcer, and poison, yellow and red urine, red tongue with yellow coating, and rapid and weak pulse.

　　Explanation: Coptis chinensis is extremely bitter and cold, clears and purges the heart fire, and also purges the fire in the middle burner. Scutellaria baicalensis clears the fire in the upper burner, Phellodendron purges the fire in the lower burner, Gardenia purifies the triple burner, conducts heat downwards, and makes the fire heat go from the bottom (urination). When the four medicines are used together, the bitterness and coldness can be eliminated, the fire evil will be removed and the heat and poison will be resolved, and all diseases can be cured. This prescription has a strong ability to purge fire and detoxify. The key points for treatment include severe fever, dry mouth and throat, red tongue with yellow coating, and rapid and weak pulse. However, the highly bitter and cold medicine can easily damage the spleen and stomach if taken for a long time, so it should not be used by those who do not have excessive fire.

　　Compatibility ideas: Bitter Cold Zhizhe.

　　Modern applications: infectious fevers.

　　Puji disinfectant drink

　　Composition: 15g each of skullcap (fried with wine) and coptis (fried with wine), 6g each of raw licorice, scrophulariaceae, and platycodon, 3g each of forsythia, isatis root, puffball, burdock, and mint, 2g silkworm, 6g bupleurum, 2g cohosh, and 6g tangerine peel.

　　Function: clear away heat and detoxify, dispel wind and dispel evil.

　　Indications: Big head plague. Aversion to cold and fever, redness, swelling and pain in the head and face, inability to open the eyes, difficulty in the throat, dry tongue and thirst, red tongue with white and yellow coating, floating and strong pulse.

　　Explanation: Big head plague is caused by the evil of wind-heat epidemic poison, which accumulates in the upper burner and occurs on the head and face. The prescription heavily uses Jiu Lian and Jiu Qin (Qin and Lian are stir-fried with wine, so that the drug effect reaches the head) to clear away heat and purge fire, and remove heat and poison from the upper burns; burdock, forsythia, mint, and isatis root are pungent and cool, and can dissipate wind-heat on the head and face; Scrophulariaceae, Puffball, silkworm, licorice and platycodon can clear away heat, detoxify and soothe the throat; Cimicifuga and Bupleurum can dispel wind-heat, and lead other medicines to the head and face, which means "the fire is stagnant"; they can be used with tangerine peel to regulate qi and clear stagnation, and promote qi and help the medicine.

　　Compatibility idea: clear away heat and detoxify, disperse wind and evil spirits upward and from the surface.

　　Modern applications: mumps or infections of the head, face, and upper respiratory tract.

　　Lianggesan

　　Composition: 18g of forsythia, 5g each of gardenia, mint, and skullcap, 9g each of rhubarb, magnolia bark, sodium salt, and licorice, 7 bamboo leaves, and a little honey.

　　Function: purges fire and relieves constipation, clears upper body and purges lower body.

　　Indications: Fire-heat syndrome in the upper and middle burners. Irritability and heat in the chest and diaphragm, irritability and thirst, red face, burnt lips, sores on the mouth and tongue, or sore throat and vomiting of epistaxis, constipation and red urine, or difficulty in defecation, red tongue with yellow coating, slippery and rapid pulse.

　　Prescription: Forsythia suspensa is used in the prescription to clear away heat and detoxify. It is combined with scutellaria baicalensis to clear away the stagnant heat in the chest and diaphragm. Gardenia purges the triple burner and induces downward fire. Mint and bamboo leaves lighten the heat and disperse it. The five herbs relieve the upper burner and evil heat in the chest and diaphragm. Rhubarb and Glauber's salt are used to purge fire and laxative, making the heat go away from the bottom. Licorice and honey can be used together with licorice and honey.

　　Compatibility ideas: Clear the upper and lower parts of the body to dispel the evils of dampness, heat and fire.

　　Modern application: It is mostly used to treat infections, and the syndrome is of damp-heat type.

　　We all know that good medicine tastes bitter and is good for diseases. Generally speaking, medicines that can clear away heat and detoxify are relatively bitter. However, there are two types of heat-clearing medicines, one is warm heat and the other is deficient heat. Therefore, when choosing a traditional Chinese medicine prescription, you must make a decision based on your actual situation.