WH Acupuncture & Herbs Centre

Bai hu tang(GYPSUM POWDER/White Tiger Decoction )

[INGREDIENTS]:

Gypsum 30g, Anemarrhena rhizome 9g, Roasted licorice root 3g, Round-grain rice 9g

[DIRECTIONS]: Decoct all herbs in water for oral use until the rice is well- done.

[EFFECTS]：Clearing heat and promoting generation of body fluid.

[INDICATIONS] ： Exuberant heat in the qi stage of Yangming manifested by sthenic fever, flushed face, irritable thirst with desire for drinking, profuse swea­ting, aversion to heat, surging, large and forceful pulse or slippery rapid pulse.

[ANALYSIS OF FORMULA]: This is a representative formula for syndrome of exuberant heat in the qi stage of Yangming. Being pungent and sweet flavors and extremely cold nature, specially clearing pathogenic evil of the lung and stomach, gypsum is the main herb to relieve muscles for expelling heat and to promote gen­eration of body fluid for quenching thirst. With bitter flavor and cold nature, anemarrhena rhizome as the assistant herb helps gypsum clear the excessive heat of the qi stage as well as replenishing the injured yin, As the adjuvant and dis­patcher herbs, licorice root and round-grain rice can reinforce the stomach for pre­serving body fluid and injury of the middle from the extremely cold of gypsum.

The four kinds of symptoms, i.e. heavy fever, profuse sweating, serious irri­table thirst and surging large pulse, are the main reasons for applying this formu­la. However, in clinic, it is not necessary to be limited in these four kinds of symp­toms. It can be applied to various conditions pertaining to non-figured exuberant heat.

In the present clinic, this formula has a certain therapeutic effects in lobar pneumonia, epidemic encephalitis B, gingivitis, rheumatic arthritis pertaining to heat in the qi phase.