clear heat • quell fire
shí gāo is used for patterns with
qi level heat, yang ming heat, lung heat, stomach heat/fire, blood-level heat, sores, wounds.
symptoms indicating the use of shí gāo
high fever, no chills, irritability, intense thirst, profuse sweating, restlessness, encephalitis, cough, wheezing, asthma, fever, headache, toothache or swollen, bleeding gums.
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release the exterior • release wind-heat
gé gēn is used for patterns with
wind-heat or wind-cold lodged in upper back and neck, stomach-heat, spleen qi/yang sinking, vents rashes.
symptoms indicating the use of gé gēn
stiff painful shoulder and neck, thirst, also from wasting and thirsting (diabetes), measles, diarrhea, dysentery, hypertension with headache, dizziness, tinnitus or…