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Scutellaria baicalensis, Huang Qin 黄芩

Huang Qin (TCM)
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, 1849

Botanical name:
Scutellaria baicalensis
Local varieties used include S. rehderiana (Gansu),  S. arnoena (Yunnan, Sichuan), S. hypericifolia (Sichuan)

Parts used:
Root

Temperature & Taste:
Cold, dry. Bitter

Classification:
B. Clears Heat & Damp

Uses:
1. Clears Heat and Damp:
-Diarrhea, Dysentery
-Fever, stifling sensation in Chest, Thirst
-Painful or Dribbling Urine
-Auxiliary for Jaundice

2. Clears Heat, Resists Toxin:
-Fever, Irritability, Thirst
-acute Cough with yellow sputum
-Heat-types Sores, Infections and Swellings
-important herb for acute bacterial infections

3. Clears Liver Heat:
-Headache, Red Eyes and Face, Restlessness, Anger, Bitter taste in the mouth
-Hypertension associated with Liver heat

4. Clears Heat, Stops Bleeding:
-Heat-type Blood in the Urine or Stool, Coughing or Vomiting Blood

5. Clears Heat, Calms the Fetus:
-Restless Fetus (excess movement or kicking)


DOSE:
3–9 grams in Decoction;
1–3 grams in Powder

SUBSTITUTE:
1. This is similar in use to Barberry bark in the West which is probably a suitable substitute.
2. Picrorrhiza is also a possible substitute

Main Combinations:
Fever, Acute Disease:
1. Acute Fever with Heat and Toxin, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Forsythia Lian Qiao, Saposhnikovia Fang Feng, Rhubarb Da Huang (as in Fang Feng Tong Shen San)
2. High Fever, Irritability, or Acute Swollen Sore Throat, Boils, Abscesses, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Coptis Huang Lian (as in Huang Lian Jie Du Tang)
3. Fever and irritability; damp heat diarrhea, Jaundice; red and swollen eyes; carbuncle, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Green tea (decoct the Scutellaria, then infuse the Green tea)
4. Alternating Fever and Chills, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Bupleurum Chai Hu.
5. Malarial disorders, Bupleurum Chai Hu with Chinese Pulsatilla Bai Tou Weng, Scutellaria Huang Qin, Areca Bing Lang (Betel nut)
6. Lesser Yang disorders with Chills and Fever, fullness in the chest and hyponchondria; and acute Phlegm-Heat disorders, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Bupleurum Chai Hu, Pinella Ban Xia.
7. Shao Yang disease, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Paeonia Bai Shao, Licorice and Jujubes (Shang Han Lun)

Heat and Toxin:
8. Acute Heat diseases affecting the Head, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Isatis Radix Ban Lan Gen, Coptis Huang Lian, Fosrythia Lian Qiao, Licorice, Peppermint
9. Childhood convulsions from Heart Fire, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Ginseng (Sheng Ji Zhong Lu)
10. Broad-spectrum antibacterial for Heat and Toxin, Scutellaria Huang Qin, Coptis Huang Lian is often combined and Phellodendron Huang Bai, known as 'San Huang', the 'Three Yellows'. To Make it stronger, add Gardenia Zhi Zi (as in Huang Lian Jie Du Tang). This again, can be made stronger with the addition of Rhubarb (Da Huang).
11. Dysentery with Blood, Scutellaria Huang Qin with, Paeonia Bai Shao, Dang Gui, Coptis Huang Lian, Areca Bing Lang (Betel Nut), Costus Mu Xiang, Licorice (Gan Cao), Rhubarb root (Da Huang), Cinnamon bark (Gui Pi) (as in Shao Yao Tang, from Su Wen Bing Ji Bao Ming Ji)
12. Herpes or Viral Hepatitis, Gynostemma Jiao Gu Lan with Gentian (Long Dan Cao), Scutellaria Huang Qin
13. Fever, swelling and pain in the Head, Mouth or Throat, Cimicifuga Sheng Ma with Scutellaria Huang Qin, Coptis Huang Lian, Figwort root (Xuan Shen), Isatis root (Ban Lan Gen)
14. Carbuncles and Internal or External Abscesses:
i. Scutellaria Huang Qin with Coptis Huang Lian and Dandelion root.
ii Scutellaria Huang Qin with, with Angelica Du Huo, Rhubarb (Da Huang), Dang Gui, Paeonia Chi Shao Yao (Red Peony root) (as in Du Huo San)
15. Eczema, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Sophora Ku Shen, Paeonia Chi Shao

Cough, Bronchitis:
16. Heat-type Cough:
i. acute Cough with yellow Sputum or Hot and dry Lungs, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Almond/Apricot kernel (Xing Ren) and Licorice.
ii. acute Heat-type Cough, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Platycodon Jie Geng, Gypsum (Shi Gao), Licorice
iii. Heat-type Cough, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Aster Zi Wan and Fritillaria Bei Mu
iv. Phlegm-heat Cough, Scutellaria Huang Qin, Trichosanthes Tian Hua Fen and Pinellia Ban Xia,
iv. Chronic Bronchitis, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Lepidium Ting Li Zi
17. Lung Heat Cough, Glauber's Salt with Scutellaria Huang Qin.

Liver Heat, Jaundice:
18. Liver Heat:
i. Scutellaria Huang Qin with Self Heal (Xia Ku Cao)
ii. Scutellaria Huang Qin with Gentian (Long Dan Cao)
iii. Scutellaria Huang Qin with Coptis Huang Lian, Rhubarb (Da Huang)
19. Liver heat Headache, Red Eyes, Irritability:
i. Scutellaria Huang Qin with Self Heal. This combination can also be used for Hyperthyroidism.
ii. Liver Wind-Heat with Dizziness, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Cassia tora Jue Ming Zi with Gastrodia Tian Ma, Self Heal (Xia Ku Cao).
20. Sore, Red Eyes from Liver heat or Wind-Heat:
i. Wind-Heat, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Schizonepeta Jing Jie, Peppermint (Bo He), Chrysanthemum Ju Hua
ii. Liver heat, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Cassia tora Jue Ming Zi and Gentian (Long Dan Cao)
21. Damp-Heat Jaundice
i. Scutellaria Huang Qin with Rhubarb, Gardenia Zhi Zi and Artemisia Yin Chen.
ii. Damp-Heat Jaundice with Fever, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Coptis Huang Lian and Paeonia Bai Shao.

Heat-type Bleeding:
22. Bleeding from Heat:
i. from Heat and Yin deficiency, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Ophiopogon Mai Men Dong and Madder (Qian Cao)
ii. Vomiting of Blood, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Paeonia Mu Dan Pi and Rhubarb.
iii. Blood in the Stool from Heat, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Burnet root
iv. Diarrhea and Dysentery with Blood, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Madder (Qian Cao), Coptis Huang Lian
v. Vomiting of Blood from Heat, Paeonia Mu Dan Pi with Scutellaria Huang Qin

Other:
23. Heat and Damp affecting the Stomach, Amomum Bai Dou Kou with Scutellaria Huang Qin
24. Restless Fetus, Scutellaria Huang Qin with Atractylodes Bai Zhu and Dang Gui.

Major Formulas:
Xiao Chai Hu Tang
Da Chai Hu Tang
Huang Lian Jie Du Tang
Niu Huang Jie Du Pian
Dang Gui Liu Huang Tang
Long Dan Xie Gan Tang
Fang Feng Tong Sheng San
Tian Ma Gou Teng Yin
Da Huang Zhe Chong Wan


Cautions:
1. Not used in Cold and Weakness of the Digestive system.

Main Preparations used: