Traditional Chinese Medicine/Qing Re Xia Huo

Qing Re Xia Huo (Clear Heat Purge Fire)
General Actions & Indications:
 * Clear Heat and Drain Fire (Simplified Chinese: 清热下火, Traditional Chinese :清熱下火, Pinyin: qīngrè xiàhuǒ)
 * external heat goes to Qi level
 * Big 4 symptoms of Qi level Heat (indicates invasion of Yang Ming):
 * Big Fever
 * Big Thirst (drink ice water)
 * Big Sweating (Heat pushes sweat out)
 * Big Pulse (very strong)
 * Tai Yang (UB) Channel goes deep to Yang Ming level
 * red face
 * excessive energy
 * excited
 * not tired because of Fire inside
 * Fire goes to body makes patient confused
 * high fever (104°-105°F)
 * talking crazy
 * red tongue body
 * yellow tongue coating
 * pulse big & full
 * Lung Heat - Heat/Fire goes to Lungs, also Stomach Heat, Liver Fire
 * DO NOT TONIFY Exterior condition (yet)

General Contraindications & Cautions:
 * Spleen &/or Stomach deficient Cold


 * ../Shi Gao/ (石膏) - clear Heat from Lung & Stomach at Qi level, Coldest
 * ../Zhi Mu/ - clear Heat from Lung & Stomach at Qi level, moistening, not as Cold as Shi Gao
 * ../Lu Gen/ - clear Heat from Lung & Stomach at Qi level, injured Yin, especially Lung-Yin


 * ../Zhi Zi/ (栀子) - mild Clear Heat & Drain Fire, initial stage Heat with irritability, eliminates Damp-Heat, Antibiotic and anti-inflammation
 * ../Dan Zhu Ye/ - specialist Clear Fire from Heart and Stomach
 * ../Jue Ming Zi/ (决明子) - clear Heat from Liver Channel, pacifies Liver, extinguishes Fire, moistens Intestines
 * ../Xia Ku Cao/ (夏枯草) - eye problems, Liver constraint complicated by excess Heat, headache, vertigo, scrofula
 * ../Han Shui Shi/ (寒水石)
 * ../Tian Hua Fen/ (天花分)