Sweet Dew Toxin-Clearing Elixir

醫效祕傳

Levigated Talcum 15 liang; Yinchen 11 liang; Scutellaria 10 liang; Acorus 6 liang; Fritillaria (Chuanbei) 5 liang; Akebia (Mutong) 5 liang; Agastache (Huoxiang) 4 liang; Belamcanda (Shegan) 4 liang; Forsythia (Lianqiao) 4 liang; Mint (Bohe) 4 liang; Cardamom (Baidoukou) 4 liang. The above medicinals are sun-dried and ground into powder. Each dose is 3 qian, taken mixed with boiled water; or made into pills with Shenqu paste, the size of a bullet, and taken dissolved in boiled water. (Wen Re Jing Wei)

Sun-dried and ground into powder. Each dose is 3 qian, taken mixed with boiled water; or made into pills with Shenqu paste, the size of a bullet, and taken dissolved in boiled water. (Modern usage: Powder, 6–9 g per dose; Pill, 9–12 g per dose; Decoction, decocted in water for oral use; the amount is determined according to the proportions of the original formula.)

湯劑

Promote diuresis and resolve turbidity; Clear heat and resolve toxin.

For the early stage of damp-warm, summer-warm, and pestilence, when the pathogen is in the qi aspect and Damp-heat is equally severe. Symptoms include fever and fatigue, chest oppression and abdominal distension, no sweating with vexation, or sweating without fever resolution, yellowing of the body, thirst, or throat sores and swollen cheeks, red urine and constipation, or diarrhea that is not smooth and has a heat-foul odor, tongue coating pale white or thick and greasy, and a soggy pulse.

If Damp-heat enters the nutritive aspect, with delirious speech and a crimson tongue, this formula is not suitable.