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Wen Bing - 07 Fu Shu (Lurking Summerheat) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - See Shu Wen chapter
  - - - Wind-heat attacks exterior which activates pre-existing Fu Shu. Patient has fever/chills/headache (Wind-heat exterior), dry mouth, red tongue, rapid pulse (Summerheat). This is Yin Qiao San plus herbs to to nourish the yin (Sheng Di Huang, Mai Men Dong) and cool the ying level (Mu Dan Pi, Chi Shao).
- - - - Clears Gallbladder heat and San Jiao Damp. Patient has: alternating chills/fevers (Shao Yang sx), chest/abdomen distention, greasy yellow tongue coating, afternoon fever (Damp). Chief herbs are Qing Hao and Huang Qin. Qing Hao (Wormwood) drains damp-heat from Liver and Gallbladder, also vents Shao Yang outward. Huang Qin also drains damp-heat from Liver and Gallbladder.
  - - - Fu Shu and Damp have combined with food retention in Large Intestine. Patient has fever, yellow greasy tongue (Fu Shu and Damp), stool not well formed, abdominal bloating, tenesmus (Large Intestine. Zhi Shi is the chief herb and is used to purge Damp-heat. The base of this formula is Da Huang, Zhi Shi and Hou Po, the 3 herbs that make up Xiao Cheng Qi tang.
- - - - There is Fu Shu in the Ying and Heart that is transferring to the SI. Patient has fever worse at night, dry mouth (Ying level), restless, insomnia (Heart), painful urination (Small Intestine). This formula "guides out the red" that is it clears heat from the Heart through the Small Intestine out through the urine.
  - - - Fu Shu enters into the blood level and causes blood stasis, simultaneously phlegm velis the pericardium. This is a modification of Xi Jiao Di Huang tang with herbs to also resolve Pericardium phlegm and open orifices. Patient has: fever worse at night (Yin damage), purple tongue (Blood level heat w/ stasis), delirium (Pericardium).