Clearing heat and resolving toxin

A method of treatment used to address any repletion pattern attributed to heat toxin, such as intense heat toxin in externally contracted febrile disease, sore³ (yáng patterns), cinnabar toxin, maculopapular eruption, pulmonary welling-abscess fèi yōng, dysentery with blood and pus in the stool, and heat strangury with painful urination and reddish urine. Such patterns are characterized by scorching heat, heat effusion, swelling and distension, pain, suppuration, and putrefaction. Medicinals used include isatis leaf (Isatidis Folium, 大青叶 dà qīng yè), isatis root (Isatidis Radix, 板蓝根 bǎn lán gēn), dandelion (Taraxaci Herba, 蒲公英 pú gōng yīng), scutellaria (Scutellariae Radix, 黄芩 huáng qín), coptis (Coptidis Rhizoma, 黄连 huáng lián), phellodendron (Phellodendri Cortex, 黄柏 huáng bǎi), moutan (Moutan Cortex, 牡丹皮 mǔ dān pí), red peony (Paeoniae Radix Rubra, 赤芍药 chì sháo yào), lonicera (Lonicerae Flos, 金银花 jīn yín huā), forsythia (Forsythiae Fructus, 连翘 lián qiào), fresh ginger (Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens, 生姜 shēng jiāng), and gardenia (Gardeniae Fructus, 山栀子 shān zhī zǐ). A commonly used heat-clearing toxin-resolving formula is Coptis Toxin-Resolving Decoction (黄连解毒汤 huáng lián jiě dú tāng).

Acumoxatherapy: Select BL-40 (Bend Center, 委中 wěi zhōng), PC-3 (Marsh at the Bend, 曲泽 qū zé), Ten Diffusing Points (十宣 shí xuān), as the main points and, for sores etc., prick ouch points (阿是穴 ā shì xué) to bleed.