Sweet Wormwood and Scutellaria Gallbladder-Clearing Decoction
Action:Clears gallbladder, drains dampness, harmonizes the stomach, and dissolves phlegm.
Indication:Pattern of shaoyang damp-heat marked by alternating chills and fever similar to malaria, more fever than chills, a bitter taste in the mouth, diaphragm oppression, sour and bitter regurgitation, spitting yellow sticky drool, belching, hiccups, distending pain in the chest and rib-side, yellow scanty urine, a red tongue body, a white greasy or white yellow tongue coating, and a rapid, slippery right pulse and a rapid, wiry pulse.