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Weeping Forsythia Fruit

Latin Pharmaceutical Name

Forsythiae Fructus

Chinese Name

连翘

Category

Fruits and seeds

Weeping Forsythia FruitMore Info

Production Regions

Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi.

Macroscopic Features

Yellow lian qiao (Lao qiao): Long oval or oval shape, with narrow and pointy ends, often cracked into 2 parts. Externally has one obvious longitudinal groove and irregular longitudinal wrinkles and raised spots, with remnants of fruit stem, external surface is brownish-yellow, inner surface is pale yellowish-brown, smooth, with one longitudinal partition inside. Hard and brittle texture. Seeds often fall off. faintly aromatic odor; bitter taste. Green lian qiao (Qing qiao): narrow oval to oval shape, with narrow and pointy ends, often not cracked. Externally green or greenish-brown, with 2 longitudinal grooves and raised small spots, with one longitudinal partition inside, or has remnants of fruit stem. Hard texture. Aromatic odor; bitter taste.

Quality Requirements

Superior medicinal material has yellow color, large halves, thick shells.

Properties

Bitter; slightly cold

Functions

Clears heat, resolves toxin, eliminates swelling, disperses stasis, dispels wind heat, also called ‘premier of sore medicines’. Apply to warm heat diseases, erysipelas, rashes, abscess swelling pain, scrofula, pyretic stranguria and uroschesis, heart fire.

Origin

The dried fruit of Forsythia suspense (Thunb.) Vahl.(Oleaceae). The fruit harvested when still green is called Qing qiao; the fruit harvest when mature and yellow is called Lao qiao.

Weeping Forsythia FruitHerbs in the formula

Lonicera and Forsythia Powder

Action：Vents the exterior with acrid-cool, clears heat, and resolves toxin.

Indication：Yin Qiao San is indicated for the early stage of a warm disease. The symptoms are fever, slight aversion to cold, absent or inhibited sweating, headache, thirst, cough, and sore throat. The tip of the tongue is red with a thin, yellow coating, and the pulse is superficial and rapid.

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Universal Relief Toxin-Removing Beverage

Action：Clears heat, resolves toxins, scatters wind, and disperses swelling.

Indication：This formula is indicated for swollen-head infection (also referred to as massive head scourge). The symptoms are redness, swelling, and pain in the head and face, failure to open the eyes, red, swollen, and sore throat, aversion to cold with fever, thirst, a red tongue with a yellow coating, and a forceful rapid pulse.

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Ying Level Heat-Clearing Decoction

Action：Clears heat from the ying level, resolves toxins, vents heat from the ying level, and nourishes yin.

Indication：This formula is indicated for the heat in the ying level. The symptoms are fever aggravated at night, vexation and sleeplessness, occasional delirious speech, thirst or not, inconspicuous macules and papules, crimson colored, dry tongue, and a thready, rapid pulse.

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Diaphragm-Cooling Powder

Action：Drains fire, promotes defecation, clears heat from the upper, and discharges heat through the purgative method.

Indication：This formula is indicated for the heat that has been generated from the constraint of pathogens in the upper jiao and middle jiao. The symptoms are vexing heat in the chest and diaphragm, red complexion, parched lips, vexation and agitation, thirst, mouth and tongue sores, restless sleep, delirium, pharyngeal pain, spitting of blood, nosebleed, constipation, dark urine, and incomplete defecation. The tongue is red with a yellow coating, and the pulse is slippery and rapid.

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Mulberry Leaf and Chrysanthemum Beverage

Action：Dissipates wind and clears heat, ventilates the lung, and stops coughing.

Indication：Sang Ju Yin is indicated for the initial stage of a wind-warmth pattern. Coughing is the major symptom along with a low-grade fever, slight thirst, and a superficial rapid pulse.

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Harmony-Preserving Pill

Action：Promotes digestion and harmonizes the stomach.

Indication：This formula is indicated for food accumulation in the stomach cavity. The symptoms are fullness, distending pain in the abdomen and stomach cavity, belching, acid swallowing, aversion to food, vomiting, and diarrhea. The tongue coating is thick and greasy, and the pulse is slippery.

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Sweet Dew Toxin-Removing Elixir

Action：Drains dampness and removes turbidity, clears heat and resolves toxins.

Indication：Gan Lu Xiao Du Dan is indicated for damp-warmth and seasonal epidemic. It is a pattern with equal dampness and heat pathogens in the qi level. The symptoms are fever and fatigue, chest distress and abdominal distension, aching pain of limbs, throat pain, yellow skin and eyes, maxillofacial swelling, thirst, scanty and dark urine, diarrhea, and turbid strangury. The tongue coating may be either white, thick and greasy or yellow and dry. The pulse is either soggy and rapid or slippery and rapid.

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