LONICERA & FORSYTHIA FORMULA POWDER
Yin Qiao San
‘Honeysuckle and Forsythia Powder’
Source: Detailed Differentiation of Seasonal Febrile Diseases (Wēn Bìng Tiáo Biàn, 1798)
Keywords
influenza, acute tonsillitis, mumps
Ingredients
Lonicera japonica (Jin Yin Hua, lonicera)
Forsythia suspensa (Lian Qiao, forsythia)
Schizonepeta tenuifolia (Jing Jie, schizonepeta)
|Glycine max (Dan Dou Chi)
Mentha arvensis (Bo He, mint)
Lopatherum gracile (Dan Zhu Ye, lophatherum)
Arctium lappa (Niu Bang Zi, arctium)
Platycodon grandiflorum (Jie Geng, platycodon)
Glycyrrhiza uralensis (Gan Cao, liquorice)
Major therapeutic action
Disperses Wind-Heat, clears Heat, removes Toxin.
Anti-viral, antibacterial, antifebrile.
o Initial stage of Warm Diseases.
o With the appropriate key symptoms, this formula can be used to treat biomedical conditions such as influenza, acute tonsillitis, mumps and measles, etc.
Key symptoms for use
o fever without sweating
o unsmooth sweating
o mild aversion to cold and wind
o headache
o thirst
o cough
o sore throat
o red tongue tip
o thin whitish or yellow tongue fur
o floating and rapid pulse
None noted.
None noted.
The typical dose is three grams twice daily, before meals. In severe cases or the early stages of treatment (the first two weeks), a 50-100% increase in dose may be used, and then reduced as the treatment takes effect.