清骨散

Name

Powder of Relieving Bone-heat

Source

The book Zheng Zhi Zhun Sheng

Ingredients

• Yin Chai Hu (Radk Stellariae) 10 g,
• Hu Huang Lian (Rhizoma Picrorhizae) 6 g,
• Qin Jiao (Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae) 6 g,
• Bie Jia (Carapax Trionycis prepared with vinegar) 6 g,
• Di Gu Pi (Cortex Lycii) 6 g,
• Qing Hao (Herba Artemisiae Annuae) 6 g,
• Zhi Mu (Rhizoma Anemarrhenae) 6 g,
• Gan Cao (Radix Glycyrrhizae) 4 g.

Explanation

Yin Chai Hu: The principal drug, being sweet in flavor and slightly cold in nature and good at clearing away bone-heat due to consumption.

Zhi Mu, Hu Huang Lian and Di Gu Pi: Being good at reducing asthenia-type fever and removing bone-heat with sweat.

Bie Jia: Nourishing Yin and suppressing hyperactive Yang to reduce asthenia-type fever.

Qing Hao and Qin Jiao: Dispelling bone-heat without sweat.

Gan Cao: Tempering the actions of all the other ingredients.

Effect

Alleviating asthenic fever and removing bone-heat.

Indications

Syndrome due to bone-heat resulting from consumption or prolonged low fever; including tuberculosis and hematopathy.

Administration

Decocted in water for oral dose to be taken twice (Taken originally in the form of powder)