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Scutellaria baicalensis, Huang Qin 黄芩

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


Botanical name:
Scutellaria baicalensis

Parts used:
Root

Temperature & Taste:
Cold, dry. Bitter

Classification:
B. Clears Heat

Uses:
1. Clears Heat and Damp:
-Diarrhea, Dysentery
-Painful or Dribbling Urine

2. Clears Heat, Resists Toxin:
-Fever, Irritability, Thirst

3. Clears Liver Heat:
-Headache, Red Eyes and Face

4. Clears Heat, Stops Bleeding:
-Bleeding

5. Clears Heat, Calms the Fetus:
-Restless Fetus


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. Picrorhiza is also a possible substitute
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Main Combinations:
Fever, Acute Disease:
1. Acute Fever with Heat and Toxin, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
2. High Fever, Irritability, or Acute Swollen Sore Throat, Boils, Abscesses ... available in PRO version
3. Fever and irritability; damp heat diarrhea, Jaundice; red and swollen eyes; carbuncle ... available in PRO version
4. Alternating Fever and Chills, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
5. Malarial disorders, ... available in PRO version
6. Lesser Yang disorders with Chills and Fever, fullness in the chest and hyponchondria; and acute Phlegm-Heat disorders, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
7. Shao Yang disease, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version

Heat and Toxin:
8. Acute Heat diseases affecting the Head, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
9. Childhood convulsions from Heart Fire, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
10. Broad-spectrum antibacterial for Heat and Toxin, Scutellaria Huang Qin, ... available in PRO version
11. Dysentery with Blood, Scutellaria Huang Qin with, ... available in PRO version
12. Herpes or Viral Hepatitis, ... available in PRO version
13. Fever, swelling and pain in the Head, Mouth or Throat, ... available in PRO version
14. Carbuncles and Internal or External Abscesses:
i. Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
ii Scutellaria Huang Qin with, with ... available in PRO version
15. Eczema, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version

Cough, Bronchitis:
16. Heat-type Cough:
i. acute Cough with yellow Sputum or Hot and dry Lungs, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
ii. acute Heat-type Cough, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
iii. Heat-type Cough, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
iv. Phlegm-heat Cough, Scutellaria Huang Qin, ... available in PRO version
iv. Chronic Bronchitis, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
17. Lung Heat Cough, Scutellaria Huang Qin ... available in PRO version

Liver Heat, Jaundice:
18. Liver Heat:
i. Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
ii. Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
iii. Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
19. Liver heat Headache, Red Eyes, Irritability:
i. Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
ii. Liver Wind-Heat with Dizziness, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
20. Sore, Red Eyes from Liver heat or Wind-Heat:
i. Wind-Heat, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
ii. Liver heat, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
21. Damp-Heat Jaundice
i. Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
ii. Damp-Heat Jaundice with Fever, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version

Heat-type Bleeding:
22. Bleeding from Heat:
i. from Heat and Yin deficiency, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
ii. Vomiting of Blood, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
iii. Blood in the Stool from Heat, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
iv. Diarrhea and Dysentery with Blood, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
v. Vomiting of Blood from Heat, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version

Other:
23. Heat and Damp affecting the Stomach, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version
24. Restless Fetus, Scutellaria Huang Qin with ... available in PRO version


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:

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