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rx
formula
Lonicera and Forsythia C.
chinese formulae
definition
Lonicera and Forsythia C. = Yin Qiao San = "Honeysuckle and Forsythia Powder"
sources: Hsu, 1980, p. 83; Bensky and Barolet, p. 44; Yeung, p. 275.
signs and symptoms: Headache, fever, slight or no chills, thirst, cough, sore throat.
tongue and pulse: Red-tipped tongue with thin, white or thin, yellow tongue coating, and floating, rapid pulse.
indications: Lung Wind-Heat. With the appropriate presentation, may be used in conditions conventionally diagnosed as common cold with fever, influenza, acute tonsillitis, initial stages of measles and mumps, acute bronchitis, acute endometritis, and early-stage encephalitis or meningitis.
cautions and contraindications: Modify in cases with Damp-Heat. Contraindicated for common cold due to Wind Cold.
ingredients: dosage for two days:
» 9 grams: lonicera (jin yin hua), forsythia (lian qiao), prepared soybean (dan dou chi).
» 6 grams: arctium (niu bang zi), platycodon (jie geng), phragmites (lu gen).
» 3 grams: mentha (bo he), schizonepeta (jing jie shui), bamboo leaf (dan zhu ye), licorice (gan cao).
modifications:
» for nosebleed, omit schizonepeta (jing jie) and prepared soybean (dan dou chi) and add imperata (bai mao gen) and gardenia (zhi zi).
» for severe thirst, add trichosanthes root (tian hua fen).
» for severe sore throat, add lasiosphera (ma bo) and scrophularia (xuan shen).
» for a stifling sensation in the chest, add agastache (huo xiang).
» for pronounced coughing, add apricot seed (xing ben).
» for Heat entering the Interior with scanty urine, add fresh rehmannia (sheng di huang), ophiopogon (mai men dong), scute (huang qin), anemarrhena (zhi mu) and gardenia (zhi zi).
» for early-stage carbuncles, add dandelion (pu gong ying) and isatis (da qing ye).
» for a yellow tongue coating and diarrhea, take with Pueraria, Coptis and Scute C. (Ge Gen Huang Lian Huang Qin Tang).
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