Half-summer Laxative Heart Soup is a formula in Chinese medicine to harmonize cold and heat (to harmonize cold and heat in the body), it does not have the efficacy and effect of treating night sweating (abnormal sweating after going to sleep, but sweating stops after waking up), and is usually not used in the treatment of night sweating.
Semixia Laxative Heart Tang is composed of Semixia, Scutellaria baicalensis, Rhizoma Coptidis, Dry Ginger, Ginseng, Jujubae, and Radix et Rhizoma Glycyrrhizae, and has the efficacy of regulating cold and heat and dispersing lumps and knots. This formula is mainly used in treating cases of deficiency and solidity, and should not be used if the plumpness under the heart is caused by stagnation of Qi or accumulation of food.
This medicine can be used to treat the plumpness caused by the mixture of cold and heat (both cold and heat symptoms appear in the same patient at the same time), which is seen as fullness under the heart (mainly refers to the distension and discomfort in the stomach), but fullness without pain, or vomiting, intestines sounding and discharging, etc., and has no efficacy and effect in treating night sweating.
Night sweating in Chinese medicine is thought to be related to insufficiency of blood in the heart (insufficient blood in the heart) or yin deficiency and exuberance of fire (deficiency of yin and essence in the body, and hyperactivity of deficiency and fire in the body), and it can be treated under the guidance of the physician’s diagnosis and treatment of the prescription, and should not be taken blindly by the Half-summer Laxative Heart Soup.