Commonly used Chinese medicines for clearing heat and drying dampness (removing heat and drying dampness) include Huang Lian, Huang Qin, and Bitter Ginseng. Medicines for clearing heat and drying dampness are often used in the treatment of damp-heat conditions in the body. 1. Huanglian has the effect of clearing heat and drying dampness, diarrhea and detoxification. It is used in treating damp-heat plumpness, vomiting and acid swallowing (swallowing the acid water in the stomach upward to the mouth and throat), diarrhea, jaundice, high fever and dizziness, hyperactive fire in the heart, disturbing and insomnia, palpitations, epistaxis (vomiting of blood and nosebleed due to blood heat), toothache, thirst, carbuncle and furuncle (mostly occurring in the limbs or face, with a small shape and deep root, as hard as nails), etc. It is also used in treating the symptoms of damp-heat diseases. 2. Scutellaria baicalensis has the efficacy of clearing heat and drying dampness, diarrhea and detoxification, stopping bleeding and tranquilizing the fetus. It is often used in the treatment of dampness-warmth (warmth disease caused by feeling dampness-heat), summer-dampness, chest congestion and vomiting, damp-heat lumps and fullness, diarrhea and jaundice, lung-heat cough, fever and thirst, blood-heat, carbuncle, swelling, sores and poison, and other diseases. 3. Bitter ginseng has the efficacy of clearing heat and drying dampness, dispelling wind and killing worms, and diuretic. It is often used in the treatment of hot dysentery (dysentery caused by intestinal and gastrointestinal dampness and heat), blood in stool, jaundice, urinary incontinence, leucorrhoea (abnormal leucorrhoea with blood or blood clots), vaginal swelling and itching, eczema and eczema, itchy skin, scabies, leprosy, and other diseases. The specific use of the drug should be under the guidance of a professional physician.