清络饮

Name

Decoction for Removing Heat from the Lung Channel

Source

The book Wen Bing Tiao Bian

Ingredients

• Fresh He Ye (Folium Nelumbinis) 6 g,
• fresh Yin Hua (Flos Lonicerae) 9 g,
• Si Gua Luo (Fasciculus Vascularia Luffae) 6 g,
• Xi Gua Cui Yi (Exocarpium Citrulli) 6 g,
• fresh Bian Dou Hua (Flos Lablab) 6 g,
• fresh Zhu Ye (Herba Lophatheri) 6 g.

Explanation

Fresh Yin Hua: One of the principal drugs, being sweet in flavor and cold in nature, getting together with the other principal drug fresh Bian Dou Hua aromatic in flavor to remove summer-heat.

Xi Gua Cui Yi: Removing summer-heat.

Si Gua Luo: Dispelling heat from the lung collaterals.

Fresh He Ye: Dispersing and purging summer-heat.

Fresh Zhu Ye: Purging heart-fire by inducing diuresis.

Effect

Expelling pathogenic summer-heat.

Indications

Syndrome due to attack of summer-heat on the lung and pathogens lodging in the Qi system, marked by mild fever and thrist, vague mind, dizziness, mild distention of the head, pale red tongue with thin whitish coating; including sun-stroke with the above symptoms.

Administration

Decocted in water for oral dose to be taken twice.