clear heat • dry damp-heat
huáng lián is used for patterns with
middle jiao damp-heat, liver-fire, heart-fire, stomach-fire, blood-heat, water and fire not harmonized.
symptoms indicating the use of huáng lián
diarrhea or dysenteric disorder, enteritis and vaginal infection, cholera, acute gastroenteritis, typhoid fever, staphylococcus, vomiting and/or acid regurgitation, irritability, disorientation, delirium, red eyes, otitis and a sore throat, ear, nose and throat infection, epistaxis, hematemesis, hematuria, hemafecia and hemoptysis.
not in pregnancy, not long-term, and not in spleen and stomach xu cold
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