HERB FORMULAS

XIAO ER HUI CHUN DAN - 小儿回春丹 - CHILDREN RETURN OF SPRING SPECIAL PILL

English: Children Return of Spring Special Pill
Also Known As:  

HERBS AND ACTIONS

Pharmaceutical Latin
Pin Yin
Dosage
Actions
Calculus Bovis Niu Huang 3g Clears the Heart, opens the Orifices aromatically, awakens the Spirit, vaporizes Phlegm, clears the Liver, relieves Fire toxicity, extinguishes Wind and stops tremors.
With Quan Xie and Tian Zhu Huang, for convulsions and impaired consciousness in children due to extreme Heat.
With She Xiang, Gou Teng, Tian Zhu Huang and Quan Xie, for Liver Wind.
With Jiang Can, Tian Zhu Huang and Dan Nan Xing, for convulsions due to Phlegm-Heat.
With She Xiang and Bing Pian, for unconsciousness, delirious speech, a high fever and convulsions.
Concretio Bambusae Silicea Tian Zhu Huang 9g Clears and transforms Phlegm-Heat, clears Heat, cools the Heart and settles convulsions and tremors.
With Dan Nan Xing, for febrile convulsions in children with wheezing caused by Phlegm-Heat Blocking the Lungs.
With Jiang Can, for convulsions, delirium and loss of consciousness accompanied by cough and respiratory difficulty due to Wind, Heat and Phlegm, especially for childhood convulsions.
Bul. Fritillariae Cirrhosae Chuan Bei Mu 30g Clears Heat, transforms Phlegm stops coughing and nourishes and moistens the Lungs.
Arisaemae cum Bile Dan Nan Xing 60g Clears Heat, dissolves Phlegm, calms Wind and stops convulsions.
Moschus She Xiang 4.5g Strongly opens the Orifices and Luo vessels, revives the Spirit and unblocks closed disorders.
With Niu Huang, Gou Teng and Dan Nan Xing, for loss of consciousness and convulsions secondary to fevers in children.
With Niu Huang, for coma due to Heat.
With Tian Zhu Huang and Zhu Sha, for infantile convulsions.
With Niu Huang and Bing Pian, for closed disorders from Phlegm-Heat or Heat Sinking into the Pericardium.
With Niu Huang, Bing Pian and Zhu Sha, for impaired consciousness due to Heat and Phlegm, stroke, convulsions and/or heat stroke.
Ram. cum Uncis Uncariae Gou Teng 60g Extinguishes Wind, alleviates spasms, drains Liver Heat and pacifies Liver Yang.
Scorpio Quan Xie 9g Extinguishes Wind and stops tremors and convulsions.
With Gou Teng, for seizures, convulsions spasms, tics, hemiplegia due to Wind-Stroke, numbness and pain in the limbs, and stubborn migraines or trigeminal neuralgia from Liver Wind or Liver Yang Rising.
With Jiang Can, Gou Teng and Tian Ma, for facial paralysis due to Wind Stroke.
With Jiang Can, for Wind-Dampness.
Rz. Gastrodiae Tian Ma 9g Extinguishes Wind, calms the Liver and stops spasms and tremors.
With Gou Teng, calms the Liver and extinguishes Wind.
With Gou Teng and Quan Xie, for acute infantile or childhood convulsions.
With Dan Nan Xing, Zhi Bai Fu Zi and Fang Feng, for tetany with spasms, twitching or opisthotonis.
Bombyx Batryticatus Jiang Can 9g Extinguishes Wind and stops spasms and convulsions.
With Tian Ma, Quan Xie and Dan Nan Xing, for convulsions with Phlegm and Fire.
Cinnabaris Zhu Sha 9g Sedates the Heart, calms the Spirit, expels Phlegm and sedates jitteriness and convulsions while stopping tremors.
With Gou Teng and Quan Xie, for childhood convulsions.
With Niu Huang and She Xiang, for disturbed consciousness or convulsions from high fevers.
Borneolum Bing Pian 4.5g Aromatically opens the Orifices, revives the Spirit and unblocks closed disorders.
With She Xiang, for convulsions, loss of consciousness and coma due to extreme Heat or Phlegm Blocking the Orifices.
With Niu Huang, Quan Xie and She Xiang, for convulsions due to Heat.
Rz. et Rx. Notopterygii Qiang Huo 9g Releases the Exterior, disperses Cold. expels Wind-Dampness, alleviates pain and guides Qi to the Tai Yang and Du channels.
Rx. Saposhinkoviae Fang Feng 9g Releases the Exterior, expels External Wind, expels Wind-Dampness, alleviates pain, expels Internal Wind and stops spasms.
With Qiang Huo, for Wind-Dampness.
Realgar Xiong Huang 9g Dries Dampness, expels Phlegm, stops malarial disorders and settles Wind.
With Zhu Sha, for seizures, epilepsy and convulsions.
Rz. Typhonii Preparatum Zhi Bai Fu Zi 9g Dries Dampness, transforms Phlegm, expels Wind and stops spasms.
With Jiang Can and Quan Xie, for facial paralysis and hemiplegia due to Wind-Stroke and Phlegm Obstruction of the channels and post-stroke deviation of the eyes and mouth.
Rx. Glycyrrhizae Gan Cao 30g Moderates spasms, alleviates pain, clears Heat, relieves Fire toxicity, moderates and harmonizes the harsh properties of other herbs and guides the herbs to all twelve channels.

FORMULA ACTIONS

  • Opens the Sensory Orifices
  • Arrests spasms and convulsions
  • Clears Heat
  • Transforms Phlegm

SYNDROMES

  • Phlegm-Fire Entering the Pericardium
  • Childhood convulsions

CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS

  • Fever
  • Impaired consciousness
  • Childhood convulsions
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Wheezing
  • Nausea
  • Night crying
  • Vomiting milk
  • Diarrhea
  • Abdominal pain
  • Excessive secretion of mucus and saliva
  • Sounds of mucus in the throat
  • Fidgeting
  • Delirium
  • Dyspnea
  • Coughing with sputum

TREATS

CONTRAINDICATIONS AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
  • Contraindicated during pregnancy.
  • Contraindicated for chronic childhood convulsions due to Spleen and Kidney Yang Deficiency.
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

NOTES

MODIFICATIONS

For a stronger Heat-clearing, Liver pacifying effect: For Shao Yang Pathogenic Heat:
+ Rx. Bupleuri Chai Hu
+ Hb. Menthae Bo He + Rx. Scutellariae Huang Qin
For dysenteric diarrhea with pus: For bloody dysenteric diarrhea:
+ Fr. Crataegi Shan Zha + Fr. Crataegi Shan Zha
For watery diarrhea: + Rx. Sanguisorbae Di Yu
+ Poria Fu Ling  
+ Sm. Plantaginis Che Qian Zi