| formula | Three-Stone Decoction San Shi Tang |
| source | Wenbing Tiaobian |
bubble_chart Efficacy
Clearing heat and draining dampness, diffusing and unblocking triple energizer.
Summerheat dampness pervades the triple energizer, with pathogenic factors at the qi aspect, resulting in fever, sweating, flushed face, deafness, chest and gastric stuffiness, loose watery diarrhea, scanty dark urine, and coughing with blood. There is not much thirst, a red tongue with a yellow and slippery coating, and a slippery and rapid pulse.
bubble_chart Formula Principles
In the formula, Bitter Apricot Seed disperses and opens the upper energizer lung qi, Gypsum, Calcitum, and Bamboo Shavings clear heat in the middle energizer, Talc and Ricepaperplant Pith drain dampness-heat in the lower energizer, while Lonicera and Golden Juice clear summer heat and remove toxins. When combined, these herbs work together to clear heat, drain dampness, and diffuse and unblock the triple energizer.