Huanglian Detoxification Pill can regulate damp-heat body, but Huanglian Detoxification Pill favors clearing heat, so patients need to use the medicine under doctor’s guidance.
Huanglian Detoxification Pill is composed of Huanglian, Huangbai, Scutellaria baicalensis, Talcum, Slippery Stone, and Sichuan Mutong, etc. It can diarrhea fire, detoxification, and laxative. It is used for mouth and tongue sores caused by accumulated heat in the triple jiao (upper, middle and lower triple jiao), eye redness and headache, constipation and urinary redness, vexation and heat in the heart and chest (irritability and sultriness), sore throat and sores. This drug is contraindicated in pregnant women; it is also contraindicated in people with deficiency and coldness of the spleen and stomach (weak and cold spleen and stomach).
Huanglian Xiefu Pill should not be taken for a long period of time; if symptoms are not relieved after taking the medicine for 3 days, one should go to the hospital for consultation. Patients with damp-heat constitution should not take medication without authorization, and if they need to take medication, it is recommended that they consult a doctor in time and use medication under the doctor’s guidance, so as to avoid delay or aggravation of the condition.