Te Xiao Bi Min Gan Wan - Specially Effective Nasal Allergy Pills - TCM Herbal Formula

Chinese Name: Te Xiao Bi Min Gan Wan
English Name: Specially Effective Nasal Allergy Pills

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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

  • Cang Er Zi
  • Herb Functions
    • Expels wind and damp - bi syndromes, skin disorders with itching.
    • Nasal passage obstruction - thick nasal discharge, sinus headache; often combined with Xin Yi Hua and Bai Zhi.

  • Chuan Xiong
  • Herb Functions
    • Invigorate blood, promote movement of Qi - any blood stasis pattern, important for gynecological issues (amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, difficult labor, lochioschesis).
    • Expels wind and alleviates pain - headache (temporal, vertex), dizziness, painful obstructions, skin issues.
    • Headache - moves qi upward and alleviates pain; headaches due to wind, heat, cold, blood deficiency.

  • Gao Ben
  • Herb Functions
    • Expels wind-cold, vertex headaches (teeth/jaw pain)
    • Dispels wind and dampness - useful for wind-cold-damp bi-syndromes and/or acute lower back pain from wind cold
    • Resolve dampness effecting stomach/spleen

  • Contraindications
    • Avoid in Blood and/or Yin Deficiency

    • Huo Xiang
    • Herb Functions
      • Aromatically transforms turbid dampness - abdominal distention, nausea, vomiting.
      • Harmonizes middle burner, stops vomiting due to dampness.
      • Releases the exterior (wind-damp-cold, summer heat), stomach flu.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • Man Jing Zi
    • Herb Functions
      • Disperses wind, clears heat - wind-heat especially with headache or eye pain.
      • Wind-heat in the liver channel - excessive tearing, red-painful-swollen eyes, floaters.
      • Drains damp, expels wind - supporting herb for stiff, numb, cramping, and/or heavy limbs.

    • Contraindications
      • Avoid in cases of Stomach Qi Deficiency.
      • Avoid in headaches or eye problems that arise from yin/blood deficient heat.

    • Pu Gong Ying
    • Herb Functions
      • Clears heat and relieves fire toxicity - any heat, especially liver heat with red, swollen, painful eyes.
      • Dissipates nodules and reduces abscesses - firm, hard sores, especially for breast and intestinal abscesses.
      • Promotes lactation - due to heat.
      • Clears heat, resolves damp - damp-heat jaundice, lin syndrome.
      • Often used for treating breast cancer in TCM

    • Xin Yi Hua
    • Herb Functions
      • Expels wind-cold
      • Sinus Headaches
      • Unblocks nasal passages

    • Contraindications
      • Avoid in Yin Deficiency Heat