In the patterns of heat syndrome, there are differences such as heat in Qi, Ying (nutritive), and Blood levels, as well as deficient heat and excess heat. Therefore, the clearing method can be divided into four categories: clearing heat and purging fire, cooling blood to clear heat, resolving toxin to clear heat, drying dampness to clear heat. Additionally, there are methods for clearing deficient heat and clearing heat from specific organs.
**Bamboo Leaf and Plaster Decoction**
- **Ingredients:** 6g bamboo leaf, 50g plaster, 9g pinellia, 20g ophiopogon tuber, 6g ginseng, 10g rice, 6g licorice.
- **Main Indications:** For residual heat not yet cleared after typhoid fever, warm disease, or summer heat illness, with both qi and body fluid injured. Symptoms include fever with excessive sweating, chest discomfort, reversed qi with nausea, dry mouth with desire to drink, or restlessness with insomnia, red tongue with little coating, thin rapid pulse. (This formula is commonly used for the later stage of epidemic meningitis, summer heat, heatstroke, etc., where residual heat has not cleared and both qi and body fluid are injured. It can also be applied to diabetes mellitus with symptoms of dry thirst due to stomach heat injuring yin.)
**Cooling Partition Powder**
- **Ingredients:** 20g rhubarb, 20g mirabilite, 20g licorice, 10g gardenia seed, 10g mint (stem removed), 10g scutellaria, 40g forsythia.
- **Main Indications:** Accumulated heat in the upper and middle jiao causing irritability and excessive thirst, facial heat, dizziness, chapped lips, sore throat, swollen tongue with throat obstruction, red eyes with nosebleeds, hard jaw and cheek, mouth ulcers, thick sticky saliva, restless sleep, delirious talk, constipation, hot red urine, pediatric convulsions, red tongue with yellow coating, slippery rapid pulse.
**Universal Relief Detoxifying Drink**
- **Ingredients:** 15g scutellaria, 15g coptis, 6g tangerine peel, 6g licorice, 6g rehmannia, 6g bupleurum, 6g platycodon, 3g forsythia, 3g indigo root, 3g mume flower, 3g arctium seed, 3g mint, 2g silkworm feces, 2g cimicifuga.
- **Main Indications:** Big head epidemic. Chills and fever, red swollen head and face with burning pain, inability to open eyes, sore throat, dry mouth thirst, red tongue with white and yellow coating, floating rapid forceful pulse. (This formula is often used for erysipelas, parotitis, acute tonsillitis, lymphadenitis with lymphatic reflux obstruction due to wind-heat evil toxins.)
**Left Gold Pill**
- **Ingredients:** 180g coptis, 30g evodia.
- **Main Indications:** Liver fire invading stomach pattern. Pain in the rib area, noisy stomach with acid regurgitation, vomiting, bitter taste in mouth, red tongue with yellow coating, wiry rapid pulse. (This formula is commonly used for gastritis, esophagitis, gastric ulcer due to liver fire invading stomach.)
**Discharging White Powder**
- **Ingredients:** 30g lycium root bark, 30g mulberry bark (fried), 3g licorice (prepared).
- **Main Indications:** Lung heat panting cough pattern. Shortness of breath with cough, skin steaming heat, especially severe in the afternoon, red tongue with yellow coating, fine rapid pulse. (It can be used for initial stages of measles in children, pneumonia, or bronchitis due to latent fire and heat stagnation in the lungs.)
**Clear Stomach Powder**
- **Ingredients:** 6g fresh rehmannia, 6g angelica body, 9g moutan bark, 6g coptis, 9g cimicifuga.
- **Main Indications:** Toothache due to stomach fire. Toothache radiating to headache, facial heat, teeth preferring cold and disliking heat, or bleeding gums, or red swollen ulcerated gums, or lip, tongue, cheek swelling and pain, foul-smelling breath, dry mouth with tongue dryness, red tongue with yellow coating, slippery rapid pulse. (This formula is commonly used for stomatitis, periodontitis, trigeminal neuralgia due to stomach fire attacking upwards.)
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