Formulas that clear heat
Dang gui long hui wan
Dang Gui, Gentian and Aloe Pill
- Chinese name
- 当归龙荟丸
- Group
- Formulas that clear heat
- English name
- Dang Gui, Gentiana and Aloe
Drains fire from liver and gallbladder.
Indications
For too much heat or fire in liver and gallbladder: headache, dizziness, a red face and red eyes, confusion, irritability and quick anger, a bitter taste, a dry throat, tinnitus, chest pain, a heavy, full feeling in the abdomen, constipation and yellow or red urine. The book mentions high blood pressure, mania, convulsions and leukaemia.
Ingredients
| Ingredients | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dang gui (Chinese angelica) | 6–9 g |
| Aloe (lu hui) | 6–9 g |
| Long dan cao (Chinese gentian) | 6–9 g |
| Huang lian (coptis) | 9–12 g |
| Huang qin (Baikal skullcap) | 9–12 g |
| Huang bai (phellodendron) | 9–12 g |
| Gardenia (zhi zi) | 3–6 g |
| Rhubarb root (da huang) | 3–6 g |
| Indigo (qing dai) | 3–6 g |
| Mu xiang (costus root) | 6–9 g |
| Musk (she xiang)animal | 0,3–0,5 g |
- Tongue
- red with a yellow coating
- Pulse
- wiry and rapid