<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<record type="formula" updated="2026-09-18T16:34:28.384591+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
  <canonical>https://bencaoindex.com/formulas/yin-qiao-ma-bo-san/</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/yin-qiao-ma-bo-san/&quot;&gt;Bencao Index&lt;/a&gt;</attribution-html>
  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">yin qiao ma bo san</name>
    <name type="english">Honeysuckle, Forsythia, and Puffball Powder</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat from Organs</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat and resolves toxicity</summary>
      <indication>Warm toxin, of a Damp-warmth or Wind-Heat kind, lodged in the throat</indication>
      <indication>Fever and thirst</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Benefits the throat</summary>
      <indication>Throat red, swollen and painful, with a blocked feeling on swallowing</indication>
      <indication>Pulse floating</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Acute tonsillitis</indication>
      <indication>Cough arising from the throat</indication>
      <indication>Mouth and throat sores of hand, foot and mouth disease</indication>
      <indication>Pus-forming throat infections</indication>
      <indication>Vincent&apos;s angina</indication>
      <indication>Scarlet fever</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>jin yin hua</herb>
    <herb>lian qiao</herb>
    <herb>niu bang zi</herb>
    <herb>she gan</herb>
    <herb>ma bo</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
