Xia Gu Cao Yin Chen taken together has the effect of clearing the liver and diarrhea fire, clearing dampness and heat, etc. It has the effect of treating eye redness and swelling pain, dampness and warmth (warmth caused by feeling dampness and heat), summer dampness and other diseases.
Xia Gu Cao’s effects include clearing the liver and diarrhea fire, brightening the eyes, dispersing knots and eliminating swelling, treating swollen and painful red eyes, night pain in the eyeballs, headache and dizziness, gall tumors (equivalent to thyroid tumors), scrofula (mainly refers to tuberculosis of lymph nodes in the neck), and carbuncle (red, swollen, and painful breasts, with milk not being discharged well, and ultimately forming a suppurative disease), and other conditions. Those with weak spleen and stomach should be cautious of using Xia Gu Cao.
The effects of Yin Chen include clearing dampness and heat, inducing bile and relieving jaundice (clearing evil Qi from the biliary tract and eliminating jaundice), treating jaundice with scanty urination, dampness, warmth and summer dampness, and itching of wet sores (a kind of allergic inflammatory skin disease with obvious tendency to ooze). Yin Chen should be used with caution in those with accumulation of blood and yellowing, and those with blood deficiency and yellowing.
Patients with discomfort are advised to consult a doctor promptly to identify the cause of the disease and standardize the treatment. In order to avoid errors in the use of medication, herbs should be combined or used alone under the guidance of a doctor, and it is not recommended to use Chinese medicine blindly on one’s own.