WH Acupuncture & Herbs Centre

Scutellaria Decoction(huang qin tang--黄芩汤)，(Treatise on Cold-Attack)

Scutellaria root 9g, white peony root 9g, Roasted licorice root 3g, Chinese date 4 pcs.

The above herbs should be decocted in water for oral administration.

【Effects】 ： clearing away heat for relieving dysentery, harmonizing the middle for reliveing pain.

【 Indicadtions】 ：abdominal pain with diarrhea, fever, oral bitter taste, or dysen­tery with abdominal cramp and fever, red tongue, taut and rapid pulse.

NOTES: Both this formula and Peony Decoction can be used to treat heat dys­entery with abdominal pain.

Peony Decoction has powerful effect on clearing*away heat and drying dampness as well as harmonizing qi and blood, so it is usually ap­plied to damp-heat dysentery marked by pus and blood diarrhea with tenesmus;

while Scutellaria Decoction is inferior in clearing away heat and drying dampness as well as harmonizing qi and blood, so it is usually applied to damp-heat diarrhea marked by mucous in stool.