<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<record type="formula" updated="2026-09-18T16:36:19.799241+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
  <canonical>https://bencaoindex.com/formulas/san-huang-shi-gao-tang/</canonical>
  <licence>Free to use and republish with visible attribution and a link back to the source page. The catalogue is a reference work and is knowingly incomplete; nothing in it is medical advice.</licence>
  <attribution-html>&lt;a href=&quot;https://bencaoindex.com/formulas/san-huang-shi-gao-tang/&quot;&gt;Bencao Index&lt;/a&gt;</attribution-html>
  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">san huang shi gao tang</name>
    <name type="english">Three Yellow and Gypsum Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Formulas that Release Exterior - Interior Excess</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat</summary>
      <indication>Heat and toxins in the Interior while Exterior signs still linger: high fever of sudden onset with chills and no sweating</indication>
      <indication>Internal Heat stagnation with a red face, great thirst, dry nose, mouth and teeth, and irritability</indication>
      <indication>Severe headache, insomnia, listlessness and in severe cases delirium</indication>
      <indication>Scanty, reddish urine</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red and dry with a yellow coat; pulse large and rapid, slippery and rapid, or wiry and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Cools the Blood to stop bleeding</summary>
      <indication>Excess Heat at the Xue (Blood) stage forcing Blood out of the vessels</indication>
      <indication>Nosebleeds, skin eruptions and other bleeding</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Epistaxis</indication>
      <indication>Bright red Yang maculae</indication>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Encephalitis B</indication>
      <indication>Epidemic hemorrhagic fever</indication>
      <indication>Typhus fever</indication>
      <indication>Typhoid and paratyphoid fever</indication>
      <indication>High fever</indication>
      <indication>Black measles</indication>
      <indication>Skin infections</indication>
      <indication>Septicemia</indication>
      <indication>Acute leukemia presenting with fever and skin rashes</indication>
      <indication>Thrombocytopenic purpura</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>shi gao</herb>
    <herb>ma huang</herb>
    <herb>dan dou chi</herb>
    <herb>huang lian</herb>
    <herb>huang qin</herb>
    <herb>huang bai</herb>
    <herb>zhi zi</herb>
    <herb>sheng jiang</herb>
    <herb>da zao</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
