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Source: èr Rú Tíng Qún Fāng Pǔ 二如亭群芳谱

Ingredients

• Xiān shēng dì zhī (鲜生地汁 Rehmanniae Radicis Recentis Succus, fresh rehmannia [root] juice) 50 ml
• Jīng mǐ (粳米 Oryzae Semen, non-glutinous rice) 30g
• Shēng jiāng (生姜 Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens, fresh ginger) 2 slices

Actions: Clears heat and engenders liquid; cools the blood and stanches bleeding.

Indications: Advanced-stage febrile disease with damage to yīn humor manifesting as persistent low heat effusion, steaming bone heat effusion, or high fever, heart vexation, thirst, and bleeding from the nose or mouth.

Method: Squeeze 50 ml of juice from fresh rehmannia or decoct 60 gr of dried rehmannia. Add the juice or decoction and ginger to ready-made rice gruel, and cook for a short time.

Rationale: Shēng dì huáng clears fire from the head and face and clears lung and liver heat. It treats frenetic movement of hot blood manifesting as nosebleed, vomiting of blood (blood ejection), coughing of blood, or bloody stool.

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