HERB FORMULAS

YING JIE SAN - 硬秸散 - PINELLIA AND USNEA FORMULA

English: Pinellia and Usnea Formula
Also Known As:

HERBS AND ACTIONS

Pharmaceutical Latin
Pin Yin
Dosage
Actions
Fried Fr. Tritici Levis Zhi Xiao Mai 12g Stops excessive sweating due to Deficiency, nourishes the Heart, calms the Spirit, inhibits the growth of and kills cancer cells.
Sargassum Hai Zao 9g Reduces Phlegm, softens areas of hardness, promotes urination, reduces edema and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
With Kun Bu, for goiter and scrofula.
Thallus Eckloniae Kun Bu 9g Resolves Phlegm, softens Phlegm nodules, promotes urination, clears Heat, reduces swelling and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
Concha Meretricis/ Cyclinae Ge Qiao 9g Clears Lung Heat, transforms Phlegm, descends Lung Qi, softens hardness, dissipates nodules, promotes urination, expels Dampness and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
With Kun Bu and Hai Zao, for goiter and scrofula.
Usnea Song Luo 9g Opens the chest, clears the Lungs, resolves Phlegm, controls bleeding, removes toxins, clears Heat, clears Damp-Heat, clears Deficiency Heat, invigorates the Blood, nourishes the Heart and promotes urination.
Rz. Pinelliae Preparatum Zhi Ban Xia 9g Dries Dampness, transforms Phlegm, dfissipates nodules, reduces Stagnation and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
With Zhe Bei Mu, for scrofula.
Bul. Fritillariae Thunbergii Zhe Bei Mu 9g Clears Heat, transforms Phlegm and dissipates nodules.
With Hai Zao, Kun Bu and Zhi Ban Xia, for rock-like masses in the center of the neck.
Rx. Gentianae Long Dan Cao 9g Drains Damp-Heat from the Liver and Gallbladder channels and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
Medulla Tetrapanacis Tong Cao 9g Promotes urination, resolves Dampness and
clears Heat.
Alumen Ming Fan 9g Clears Heat and expels Phlegm.

FORMULA ACTIONS

  • Reduces Phlegm
  • Softens areas of hardness
  • Promotes urination
  • Clears Heat
  • Clears Damp-Heat
  • Inhibits the growth of cancer cells

SYNDROMES

  • Phlegm-Heat with Dampness

CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS

  • Pain and fullness in ribs on both sides
  • Maybe pain in the right hypochondrium
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting sour and bitter fluids
  • Anorexia
  • Maybe alternating chills and fever
  • Concentrated, dark urine
  • Local redness, swelling and pain
  • Restless fever
  • Maybe fever and chills
  • Abdominal distention and discomfort
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Dislike of oily foods
  • Lassitude
  • Maybe thirst or thirst with no desire to drink
  • Diarrhea with foul smell or
  • Constipation
  • Sweet sticky taste or bitter taste in mouth
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus or deafness
  • Prolonged, nagging epigastric pain and distention
  • Patient tends to be overweight
  • Rapid breathing with a harsh voice
  • Cough with sticky, yellow, difficult to expectorate sputum
  • Sore throat
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • Dry stools
  • Alternating constipation and diarrhea
  • Variable appetite
  • Mania
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dyspnea
  • Chest and/or epigastric fullness
  • A heavy sensation in the body
  • Lethargy
  • Women:
    Yellow vaginal discharge with foul smell
    Pruritis vulvae
  • Men:
    Pain, swelling and burning sensations of testicles
    Spermatorrhea or premature ejaculation
  • T: Pink or Scarlet
  • C: Yellow or Yellow and greasy or Yellow and smooth
  • P: Rapid and smooth or Wiry and rapid or Slippery and rapid

TREATS

CONTRAINDICATIONS AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

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MODIFICATIONS