Lift and spread has the effect of ascending clear and descending turbid (making clear qi rise and turbid qi fall), dispersing wind and clearing heat, and can be used for swelling of head and face and sore throat caused by warmth and fever, plague, and so on. Gardenia black bean soup has the efficacy of clearing heat and removing vexation, and it can be used to treat typhoid fever (illness caused by fever due to feeling cold), and it can be used to prevent sleep after sweating and spitting down.
Lifting and Dispersing is from “The Complete Book of Injured Summer”, which is composed of white stalactites, cicadas, Sichuan rhubarb, and Guang Jianghuang. It can be used to treat warm fever and plague, in which the evil heat fills up both inside and outside, blocking the qi mechanism, the clear yang does not rise (the light and clear yang can not rise), and the turbid yin does not descend, resulting in head and face enlargement, sore throat, chest and diaphragm fullness and stuffiness, vomiting and abdominal pain, and bleeding of hair spots. This formula contraindications, adverse reactions are not clear.
Gardenia and Black Bean Soup is from “Treatise on Typhoid Fever”, which is composed of gardenia and black bean. Mainly treats after sweating and spitting down of typhoid fever, the deficiency annoyance can’t sleep (the annoyance caused by the deficiency heat in the body leads to the inability to sleep), the repetitive reversal, the heart chagrin nong (the heart is depressed and uncomfortable), and so on. It should be noted that when decocting, gardenia should be decocted first and then edamame. The contraindications and adverse effects of this formula are not clear.
The above formula should be used after diagnosis by a TCM practitioner and avoid self-medication to avoid adverse effects.