Clearing heat and purging fire can disperse bitter and cold, and can clear the heat of qi and purge the fire of qi, so it is also called clearing qi and dividing it. It is suitable for qi-excess heat syndrome. Symptoms include high fever, polydipsia, hyperhidrosis, red tongue with yellow coating, heavy or slippery pulse, etc. Clinically, it is often used for acute fever, such as Japanese encephalitis and pneumonia, and commonly used drugs are gypsum and Anemarrhena asphodeloides. Commonly used prescriptions include Qingqi Decoction (Baihu Decoction) and so on.
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Clearing away heat and purging fire, you should also take Niuhuang Shangqing Pill from Beijing Tongrentang, which is one of the classic prescriptions for treating excess heat syndrome in traditional Chinese medicine. It was recorded for the first time in Li Fang's Introduction to Medicine in Ming Dynasty, which has the effects of clearing away heat and purging fire, expelling wind and relieving pain. This product has many kinds of traditional Chinese medicines, mainly mint, chrysanthemum, Schizonepeta tenuifolia, angelica dahurica and forsythia suspensa, and has the effects of expelling wind, clearing away heat and relieving pain. Gardenia, Scutellariae Radix, Coptidis Rhizoma and Cortex Phellodendri; Clearing heat and cooling blood, as well as blood-enriching drugs such as angelica, red peony root and rehmannia root; Heat-clearing and fire-purging powder gypsum, etc.
(A) gypsum "classic"
This is an ore containing calcium sulfate. After digging, remove dirt and various stones, crush them and use them for raw materials or calcination purposes.
Medicinal part: it is hydrated calcium sulfate ore.
Origin: Hubei, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan and other places.
Processing; After digging, remove miscellaneous stones, dirt, raw stones or calcined stones.
Nature and taste: pungent, sweet and cold.
Meridian tropism: entering stomach meridian and lung meridian.
Function: clearing away heat and purging fire, removing annoyance and quenching thirst. Myogenic convergence for calcination.
(2) Anemarrhena classic
It is the rhizome of Anemarrhena asphodeloides, a perennial herb of Liliaceae.
Alias: Lianmu, Ginseng and Rhizoma Dioscoreae Septemlobae.
Prescription name: Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Fried Anemarrhena asphodeloides and Fat Anemarrhena asphodeloides.
Medicinal part: rhizome.
Nature and taste: bitter, sweet and cold.
Meridian tropism: entering lung, stomach and kidney meridians.
Function, clearing heat and nourishing yin.
(3) Classic of Gardenia
It is the mature fruit of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis, an evergreen shrub of Rubiaceae.
Alias: gardenia, gardenia, gardenia, gardenia.
Prescription name: Gardenia, Gardenia, Gardenia, Gardenia.
Medicinal part: fruit.
Nature and taste: bitter and cold.
Meridian tropism: entering the heart, liver, lung and stomach meridians.
Function: clearing away heat and purging fire, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.
(4) Classic of Gentiana
It is the root of Gentiana scabra, Gentiana macrophylla or Gentiana northeast, a perennial herb of Gentianaceae.
Alias: Cao Dan, Lingyou and Guanyin Grass.
Name of prescription: Gentiana, Gentiana, Gentiana.
Medicinal part: root.
Nature and taste: bitter and cold.
Meridian tropism: entering the liver and gallbladder meridian.
Function: purging liver fire and clearing heat.
(5) Prunella classic
It is the ear or whole grass of Prunella vulgaris, a perennial plant of Labiatae.
Prescription name: Prunella vulgaris, Prunella vulgaris flower.
Medicinal part; Ears or whole grass.
Nature and taste: bitter, pungent and cold.
Meridian tropism: entering the liver and gallbladder meridian.
Function: clearing liver, purging fire and dispersing stagnation.
References:
Two kinds of antipyretics and prescriptions-Baidu Encyclopedia? Clearing heat and purging fire can't be short of water-People's Network