San Huang Shi Gao Tang, Three Yellow and Gypsum Decoction, is Shi Gao, Ma Huang, Dan Dou Chi, Huang Lian, Huang Qin, Huang Bai, Zhi Zi, Sheng Jiang and Da Zao. The catalogue classes it among the formulas that release an Exterior-Interior excess.

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Amount

6 g

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Actions and indications

Clears Heat

Heat and toxins in the Interior while Exterior signs still linger: high fever of sudden onset with chills and no sweating
Internal Heat stagnation with a red face, great thirst, dry nose, mouth and teeth, and irritability
Severe headache, insomnia, listlessness and in severe cases delirium
Scanty, reddish urine
Tongue red and dry with a yellow coat; pulse large and rapid, slippery and rapid, or wiry and rapid

Cools the Blood to stop bleeding

Excess Heat at the Xue (Blood) stage forcing Blood out of the vessels
Nosebleeds, skin eruptions and other bleeding

Modern uses

Epistaxis
Bright red Yang maculae
Common cold
Encephalitis B
Epidemic hemorrhagic fever
Typhus fever
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever
High fever
Black measles
Skin infections
Septicemia
Acute leukemia presenting with fever and skin rashes
Thrombocytopenic purpura

Modifications

Bright red Yang maculae with high fever and bloodshot eyes, from Heat at the Yang Ming, Ying or Xue level: + sheng di huang, − ma huang, − dan dou chi

Thrombocytopenic purpura with bleeding gums or nose, from Heat or Yin deficiency: + sheng ma, + bai mao gen

Thrombocytopenic purpura with coughing of blood from Heat: + yu jin, + ou jie, + e jiao, + qian cao gen

Thrombocytopenic purpura with blood in the stool or vomited blood: + san qi, + bai ji, + di yu, + huai hua mi

Thrombocytopenic purpura with blood in the urine: + xiao ji, + pu huang, + dan zhu ye, + mu tong

Uterine bleeding in thrombocytopenic purpura: + lian fang tan, + zong lu pi, + ce bai ye (tan)

Blood stasis after purpura bleeding, with bruising, hematoma, enlarged spleen and a purplish tongue: + tao ren, + hong hua, + san qi

Pinyin

san huang shi gao tang

English Name

Three Yellow and Gypsum Decoction

san huang shi gao tang

About san huang shi gao tang

Ingredients

Actions and indications

Clears Heat

Cools the Blood to stop bleeding

Modern uses

Symptoms

Modifications

Names

Classification