purgatives & laxatives
dà huáng is used for patterns with
yang-ming heat, damp-heat, phlegm-heat, blood-heat, and blood-stasis.
symptoms indicating the use of dà huáng
high fever, profuse sweating, thirst, constipation, dysentery, hemorroids, abdominal distention and pain, delirium, nosebleeding, coughing of blood, painful urination, abscesses, sores.
not in pregnancy, external…