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 Chinese Medicinal Material
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| 【Chinese Name】 |
桂苓甘露飲
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| 【Phonetic】 |
Gui Ling Gan Lu Yin
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| 【English Name】 |
Cinnamon and Poria Sweet Dew Beverage |
| 【Classification】 |
Summer-heat clearing formulas |
| 【Source】 |
《Formulas from the Discussion Illuminating the Yellow Emperor's Basic Questions》Huang Di Su Wen Xuan Ming Lun Fang《黃帝素問宣明論方》 |
| 【Combination】 |
Poria (Fu Ling) 1 liang (30g), Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma Praeparata cum Melle (Zhi Gan Cao) 2 liang (60g), Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma (Bai Zhu) 0.5 liang (15g), Alismatis Rhizoma (Ze Xie) 1 liang (30g), Cinnamomi Cortex (Rou Gui) 2 liang (15g), Gypsum Fibrosum (Shi Gao) 2 liang (60g), Glauberitum (Han Shui Shi) 2 liang (60g), Talcum (Hua Shi) 4 liang (120g), Polyporus (Zhu Ling) 0.5 liang (15g) |
| 【Method】 |
Grind the medicinals into a crude powder. Mix one dose of the formula (3 qian/9g) with warm water, fresh well water, and ginger soup (this is the best). For children, one dose of a formula is 1 qian (3g). (Modern use: use water to decoct the medicinals. The dose of the formula can be reduced in a proportional ratio to the original doses.) |
| 【Action】 |
Clears summerheat, resolves heat, transforms qi, and drains dampness. |
| 【Indication】 |
This formula is indicated for summerheat-dampness. The symptoms are fever with headache, vexation and thirst, inhibited urination, cholera, vomiting, and diarrhea. |
| 【Pathogenesis】 |
This is a commonly used formula for severe cases of summerheat-dampness. Exterior summerheat causes a fever with headache. Intense heat damages the fluids, causing vexation and thirst. Intense dampness disturbs the qi transformation of the bladder, which leads to inhibited urination. Intense summerheat and intense dampness damage the spleen and stomach and results in irregular ascending and descending and failure of the clear and turbid to separate, which manifests as cholera, vomiting, and diarrhea. The therapeutic method is to clear summerheat and transform qi to promote urination. |
| 【Application】 |
1. Essential pattern differentiation
Gui Ling Gan Lu Yin is a commonly used formula for clearing summerheat and draining dampness. This clinical pattern is marked by fever with headache, vexation and thirst, inhibited urination.
2. Modern applications
This formula may be used in the following biomedically defined disorders when the patient shows signs of summerheat-dampness: summerheat-strike and urinary tract infection.
3. Cautions and contraindications
Gui Ling Gan Lu Yin is a heavy formula for clearing summerheat and draining dampness, and is used mainly in severe cases of summerheat-dampness. Do not use the formula in mild cases of summerheat damage, or patients with severe damage of qi and fluids after too much sweating and diarrhea. |
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