Fu Fang Qing Dai Wan - Indigo Combo Pills - TCM Herbal Formula

Chinese Name: Fu Fang Qing Dai Wan
English Name: Indigo Combo Pills

Formula Category


  • Clear Heat
  • Clear Heat From The Nutritive Level and Cool The Blood

Clinical Usage and Indications

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Cautions and Contraindications:

None at this time.  As always consult with an acupuncturist/herbalist before use.

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Individual Chinese Herbs In This Formula:


  • Bai Zhi
  • Herb Functions
    • Expels wind-cold, dampness
    • Opens nasal passages, sinus congestion (particularly with green discharge), alleviates pain (especially in the head region)
    • Resolve wind-cold symptoms especially with headaches (yangming - ST), supraorbital pain, congestion
    • Useful for swollen gums and toothache

  • Contraindications
    • Avoid in Yin/Blood deficiency
    • Avoid in Heat in the Blood

  • Ban Lan Gen
  • Herb Functions
    • Drains heat, relieves fire toxicity, cools the blood and benefits the throat - warm-febrile disease, mumps, painful swollen throat.
    • Damp-heat jaundice.

  • Dan Shen
  • Herb Functions
    • Invigorate blood, break up blood stasis in lower abdomen - dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, palpable masses, lochioschesis, pain due to blood stasis, chest/epigastric pain, soreness in the ribs due to liver qi stagnation w/blood stasis.
    • Clear heat, soothe irritability - restlessness, irritability, insomnia due to heat entering the ying level.

  • Contraindications

  • Jin Yin Hua
  • Herb Functions
    • Clear heat, relieve toxic fire - hot, painful swellings in the throat, breast, eyes; intestinal abscesses.
    • Expel wind-heat - fever, aversion to wind, sore throat, headache; also for summer-heat.
    • Clear damp heat from the lower jiao - dysentery, lin syndrome.
    • Stem, Ren Dong Teng, is used for similar functions - abscesses, sores, damp-heat bi syndromes.

  • Ku Shen
  • Herb Functions
    • Clears heat, dries dampness - dysentery, leukorrhea, jaundice, sores.
    • Expels wind, kills parasites, stops itching - for damp toxin skin lesions or infestations with chronic itching, seepage, and bleeding; genital itching and vaginal discharge.
    • Clears heat, promotes urination - for damp-heat in the small intestine, lin syndrome, hot edema.

  • Lian Qiao
  • Herb Functions
    • Clear heat and toxins, dissipates nodules - carbuncles and hot sores, neck lumps.
    • Expel wind-heat - fever, slight chills, sore throat, headache.

  • Tu Fu Ling
  • Herb Functions
    • Relieves toxicity, eliminates dampness - joint pain, lin syndrome, jaundice.
    • Clears damp-heat from the skin - recurrent ulcers or hot skin lesions, syphilis.

  • Contraindications
    • Do not drink black tea with this herb.