HERB FORMULAS

DAI GE SAN

English: Powder of Natural Indigo and Cyclina
Also Known As:

HERBS AND ACTIONS

Pharmaceutical Latin
Pin Yin
Dosage
Actions
Fried Cx. Mori Chao Sang Bai Pi 10g Drains stagnant Heat from the Lungs and stops cough and wheezing.
With Di Gu Pi and Gan Cao, for cough with thick sputum, fever, irritability and thirst due to Phlegm-Heat Obstructing the Lungs.
Cx. Lycii Radicis Di Gu Pi 10g Clears Deficiency Fire, clears Heat, clears Lung Heat and stops cough.
 With Sang Bai Pi, for Lung Heat cough or wheezing.
Fried Rx. Glycyrrhizae Zhi Gan Cao 1g Moistens the Lungs, resolves Phlegm, stops cough, clears Heat, relieves Fire toxicity and harmonizes.
Nonglutinous Rice Geng Mi 8g Protects the Stomach from the cold properties of the other herbs.
Indigo Naturalis Qing Dai 1g Clears Heat, relieves Fire toxicity and treats cough due to Lung Heat.
Concha Meretricis/Cyclinae Hai Ge Ke 3g Clears Heat, descends Lung Qi, treats Lung Heat cough and resolves Phlegm.

FORMULA ACTIONS

  • Drains (Hidden) Heat from the Lungs
  • Calms wheezing

SYNDROMES

  • Liver Fire Scorches the Lungs
  • Lung Heat
  • Children who alternate between Excess and Deficiency

CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS

  • Coughing (high and clear sounding)
  • Wheezing
  • Fever
  • Skin that feels hot to the touch
  • Symptoms worse in the late afternoon
  • Dry mouth
  • Little or difficult to expectorate sputum
  • Burning pain in the chest and hypochondrium
  • Yellow sputum
  • Hemoptysis
  • Impatience
  • Irritability
  • Dry, bitter taste in the mouth
  • Conjunctival congestion
  • Dizziness
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Thready and rapid - maybe wiry

TREATS

  • Inverted menses (nosebleed during menstruation)
  • Upper respiratory tract bleeding
  • Acute bronchitis
  • Pneumonia
  • Pertussis
  • Pulmonary tuberculosis (initial stage)
  • Pleurisy
  • Pneumonitis from measles
  • Mild asthmatic cough Infantile measles
  • Infantile pneumonia
  • Tracheitis
  • Common cold
  • Conjunctivitis

CONTRAINDICATIONS AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
  • Contraindicated for those with coughing and wheezing from Wind-Cold, Wind-Heat, or Damp-Phlegm.
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

NOTES

  • Modify to protect the Spleen from the cold herbs.

MODIFICATIONS

For pertussis
   
+ Three-Unbinding Decoction
San Ao Tang
    
+ Mulberry Leaf and Chrysanthemum Decoction
Sang Ju Yin