Any method of treatment used to treat damp-heat. Clearing heat and dispelling dampness is applied to damp warmth, jaundice, cholera, heat strangury, and wilting or impediment due to damp-heat external contractions, exuberant internal damp-heat, or damp-heat pouring downward. Commonly used heat-clearing dampness-dispelling medicinals include virgate wormwood (Artemisiae Scopariae Herba, 茵陈蒿yīn chén hāo), coix (Coicis Semen, 薏苡仁yì yǐ rén), talcum (Talcum, 滑石huá shí), and gardenia (Gardeniae Fructus, 山栀子shān zhī zǐ). Formulas include Three Kernels Decoction (三仁汤sān rén tāng)Virgate Wormwood Decoction (茵陈蒿汤yīn chén hāo tāng) and Sweet Dew Toxin-Dispersing Elixir (甘露消毒丹gān lù xiāo dú dān). See also clearing heat and transforming dampness and clearing heat and disinhibiting dampness.