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BONE COOLING POWDER
Qing Gu San

 

‘Cool the Bones Powder’
Source: Criteria of Syndromes and Treatment (Zheng Zhi Zhun Shen, 1608)

Keywords
tuberculosis

Ingredients
Stellaria dichotoma (yin Chai Hu, starwort root)
Artemisia apiacea (Qing Hao, sweet wormwood)
Lycium chinensis (Di Gu Pi, lycium bark)
Gentiana macrophylla (Qin Jiao, gentian root)
Amyda sinensis (Bie Jia, fresh-water turtle shell*)
Aanemarrhena aspheloides (Zhi Mu, anemarrhena)
Coptis chinensis (Huang Lian, coptis)
Glycyrrhiza uralensis (Gan Cao, liquorice)

Major therapeutic action
Clears deficient fever, allays hectic fever

 Biomedical action
antifebrile.

Indications
*  Bone-steaming fever due to yin deficiency.
*  With the appropriate key symptoms, this formula can be used to treat biomedical conditions such as tuberculosis.

Key symptoms for use
*  low fever which is aggravated in the afternoon
*  red lips and cheeks
*  thirst and dry throat
*  emaciation
*  night sweating
*  red tongue with scanty fur
*  fine and rapid pulse
Combinations
*  With Blood deficiency, combine with Si Wu Tang.
*  With loose stool and poor appetite, combine with Shan Yao/Bian Dou.		 Dosage
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, then reduced as the treatment takes effect.

Cautions and contraindications
None noted.
None noted.