Xin Yi Qing Fei XinYiQingFei Magnolia Flower Drink To Clear The Lungs 辛夷清肺丸 xin yi qing fei magnolia flower clear lungs

Xin Yi Qing Fei Wan - Magnolia Flower Drink To Clear The Lungs

辛夷清肺丸

Clinical Usage

  • Colds and/or allergies with heat signs (yellow mucus and/or fever, etc.).
  • Chronic sinus congestions / issues, chronic sinusitis, chronic rhinitis, loss of smell.
  • Nasal polyps with the right underlying factors.
  • Difficult to resolve sinus issues with thick, sticky mucus.
  • Headaches from sinus congestion.

Formula Combinations

  • If there are more signs of wei qi deficiency (frequent infections from weak immunity), possibly combine with Yu Ping Feng Wan.
  • For more cold signs consider Xin Yi Wan.

Cautions & Precautions

  • May not be appropriate with heat signs from lung yin deficiency.
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Xin Yi Qing Fei Wan is in the "Release Exterior Disorders with Head and Neck Symptoms" group within the "Release the Exterior" category.

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Common Formula Ingredients

Xin Yi Qing Fei Wan is generally comprised of the following 10 ingredients:

Bai He
Bai He
Lily Bulb
  • Moisten the lungs, clear heat, and stop coughing - cough from dry lungs or lung heat, sore throat.
  • Clear heat and calm the spirit - low fever, insomnia, restlessness, irritability in the aftermath of a febrile disease, palpitations from qi and/or yin deficiency.
Bai He is also included in 1 formula
Gan Cao
Gan Cao
Licorice Root
  • Tonifies the spleen and augments qi - spleen deficiency w/shortness of breath, fatigue, loose stools (si jun zi tong).
  • Qi and/or blood deficiency w/irregular pluse or palpitations (Zhi Gan Cao Tang).
  • Moistens the lungs and stops cough - heat/cold in the lungs (Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang).
  • Clears heat and toxic fire (raw) - carbuncles, sores, sore throat due to fire toxin (internally or topically).
  • Alleviates pain and stops spasms - abdomen or legs (Shao Yao Gan Cao Tang).
  • Often used to harmonize and/or moderate characteristics of other herbs.
  • Antidote for toxic substances (internally and topically).
Gan Cao is also included in 62 formulas
Huang Qin
Huang Qin
Baical Skullcap Root, Scutellaria
  • Clears heat, drains fire, especially from the upper warmer - heat patterns with fever, irritability, thirst, cough, thick, yellow sputum, hot sores and swellings.
  • Clears heat, dries dampness - damp-heat in the stomach or intestines, diarrhea, dysentery; damp warm-febrile disease with fever, stifling sensation in the chest, thirst with no desire to drink; damp-heat in the lower jiao - lin syndrome; damp-heat jaundice.
  • Clears heat, stops bleeding - vomiting and/or coughing of blood, nosebleed, blood in the stool.
  • Clears heat, calms the fetus - restless fetus due to heat.
  • Sedates liver yang rising - headache, irritability, red eyes, bitter taste, flushed face.
Huang Qin is also included in 22 formulas
Mai Men Dong
Mai Men Dong
Ophiopogon Tuber
  • Moistens the lungs, stops cough - dry cough, coughing blood.
  • Augments stomach yin, generates fluids - dry tongue and mouth.
  • Clears heat and eliminates irritability due to yin deficiency or a warm-febrile disease in the ying level - particularly when symptoms are worse at night.
  • Moistens the intestines - constipation.
Mai Men Dong is also included in 13 formulas
Pi Pa Ye
Pi Pa Ye
Loquat Leaf
  • Transforms phlegm, clears lung heat - lung heat patterns with cough.
  • Harmonizes the stomach, clears stomach heat, redirects rebellious stomach qi - nausea, vomiting, hiccups, belching.
  • Often fried in honey to strengthen the lung moistening function, or in ginger juice to increase its ability to stop nausea and vomiting.
Sheng Ma
Sheng Ma
Black Cohosh Rhizome, Bugbane Rhizome
  • Releases the exterior, vents muscles - accelerates the early stages of skin rashes, headache from wind-heat (forehead - stomach channel).
  • Clears heat, relieves toxicity - toxins in the upper or superficial areas, swelling, painful, sore gums, lips, and/or throat.
  • Raises yang, lifts spleen qi sinking (strong than Ge Gen) - for middle qi deficiency leading to shortness of breath, fatigue, prolapse of stomach, uterus, or rectum.
  • Serves to guide other herbs upwards.
Sheng Ma is also included in 5 formulas
Shi Gao
Gypsum
  • The most important herb to clear internal heat, especially in the qi and yang ming levels.
  • Clears heat, drains fire (heavy, descending) - high fever with no chills, excessive thirst, sweating, flooding and big pulse (the "4 bigs"), irritability, red tongue with yellow coat.
  • Clears excess lung heat - cough, wheezing, fever, thick yellow sputum.
  • Clears blazing stomach fire - headache, toothache, painful and swollen gums.
  • Topically for eczema, burns, ulcerated sores; may also be taken internally.
Shi Gao is also included in 3 formulas
Xin Yi Hua
Xin Yi Hua
Magnolia Flower
  • Expels wind-cold
  • Sinus Headaches
  • Unblocks nasal passages
Xin Yi Hua is also included in 4 formulas
Zhi Mu
Anemarrhena Rhizome
  • Clears heat, drains fire - high fever, irritability, thirst, and a rapid flooding pulse in patterns of excessive heat in the lungs and/or stomach; cough due to lung heat with thick yellow sputum.
  • Nourishes yin, moistens dryness - deficiency of lung and kidney yin, night sweats, steaming bone disorder, irritability, afternoon or low-grade fevers, bleeding gums, five-center heat; also for kidney heat signs - spermatorrhea, nocturnal emission, high sexual desire.
  • Generates fluids and clears heat - oral ulcers and inflammation due to yin deficiency, wasting and thirsting disorder.
Zhi Mu is also included in 13 formulas
Zhi Zi
Zhi Zi
Cape Jasmine Fruit, Gardenia
  • Clears heat (Heart and Liver), eliminates irritability - heat patterns with fever, restlessness, insomnia, delirium, stifling sensation in the chest.
  • Drains damp heat - lin (urinary dysfunction) syndrome due to damp-heat in the lower warmer, damp-heat and constrained liver and gallbladder causing jaundice, damp-heat in the gall bladder and triple heater channels of the face - eyes, nose, sores in the mouth and face.
  • Cools the blood, stops bleeding - nosebleed, blood in vomit, stool, urine; (needs to partially charred).
  • Topically for blood stasis due to trauma, reduces swelling.
Zhi Zi is also included in 16 formulas