Heat-clearing and detoxifying Chinese patent medicines have the functions of clearing heat, draining fire, cooling blood, and detoxifying. They are mainly used to treat various internal heat syndromes such as internal heat, fire toxicity, damp-heat, and epidemics.
Lanqin Oral Liquid and 11 other types of heat-clearing and detoxifying Chinese patent medicines are not only bestsellers in the category of respiratory diseases in pharmacies but also common staples in family medicine cabinets.
Understanding the unique efficacy of each Chinese patent medicine helps in the sales and correct usage of these medications.
01 Lanqin Oral Liquid
Ingredients:Ban Lan Gen (Isatis Root), Huang Qin (Scutellaria), Zhi Zi (Gardenia), Huang Bai (Phellodendron), Pang Da Hai (Sterculia).
Efficacy:Clears heat and detoxifies, benefits the throat and reduces swelling.
Indications:Used for sore throat, dry throat, and burning sensation in the throat caused by lung and stomach heat.
Medication Tips:Use with caution in cases of wind-cold cold with sore throat, characterized by chills, fever, no sweating, and clear nasal discharge.
02 Pu Di Lan Anti-Inflammatory Tablets
Ingredients:Dandelion, Ku Di Ding (Hedyotis), Ban Lan Gen (Isatis Root), Huang Qin (Scutellaria).
Efficacy:Clears heat and detoxifies, anti-inflammatory and reduces swelling.
Indications:Used for furuncles, pharyngitis, and tonsillitis.
Medication Tips:Use with caution in cases of spleen and stomach deficiency with symptoms of abdominal pain, preference for warmth, and diarrhea.
03 Ban Lan Gen Granules
Ingredients:Ban Lan Gen (Isatis Root)
Efficacy:Clears heat and detoxifies, cools blood and benefits the throat.
Indications:Used for sore throat and dry mouth caused by excess heat in the lung and stomach; acute tonsillitis with the above symptoms.
Medication Tips:Avoid smoking, alcohol, spicy, and fishy foods.
04 Compound Houttuynia Cordata Mixture
Ingredients:Houttuynia cordata, Huang Qin (Scutellaria), Ban Lan Gen (Isatis Root), Lian Qiao (Forsythia), Jin Yin Hua (Honeysuckle).
Efficacy:Clears heat and detoxifies.
Indications:Used for sore throat caused by wind-heat; acute pharyngitis and tonsillitis with wind-heat symptoms.
Medication Tips:Use with caution in cases of spleen deficiency with loose stools; not suitable for wind-cold colds.
05 Compound Jin Yin Hua Granules
Ingredients:Jin Yin Hua (Honeysuckle), Lian Qiao (Forsythia), Huang Qin (Scutellaria).
Efficacy:Clears heat and detoxifies, cools blood and reduces swelling.
Indications:Used for wind-heat colds, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, eye pain, toothache, and furuncles.
Medication Tips:Not suitable for wind-cold colds, characterized by heavy chills, mild fever, no sweating, headache, nasal congestion, clear nasal discharge, and itchy cough.
06 Yin Huang Granules
Ingredients:Extracts of Jin Yin Hua (Honeysuckle) and Huang Qin (Scutellaria).
Efficacy:Clears heat, dispels wind, benefits the throat, and detoxifies.
Indications:Used for sore throat, throat pain, swollen throat, thirst, fever caused by wind-heat and excess heat in the lung and stomach; acute and chronic tonsillitis, acute and chronic pharyngitis, upper respiratory infections with the above symptoms.
Medication Tips:Use with caution in cases of spleen and stomach deficiency with loose stools.
07 Er Ding Granules
Ingredients:Zihua Diding (Viola), Ban Bian Lian (Lysimachia), Dandelion, Ban Lan Gen (Isatis Root).
Efficacy:Clears heat and detoxifies.
Indications:Used for heat and toxicity causing furuncles, sore throat, and wind-heat eye infections.
Medication Tips:Use with caution in cases of spleen deficiency with loose stools.
08 Qing Kai Ling Granules
Ingredients:Bile acid, mother of pearl, pig deoxycholic acid, Zhi Zi (Gardenia), water buffalo horn, Ban Lan Gen (Isatis Root), Huang Qin (Scutellaria), Jin Yin Hua (Honeysuckle).
Efficacy:Clears heat and detoxifies, calms the mind.
Indications:Used for fever and irritability caused by wind-heat; sore throat; and upper respiratory infections, viral colds, and acute pharyngitis with the above symptoms.
Medication Tips:Not suitable for wind-cold colds, characterized by heavy chills, mild fever, no sweating, headache, nasal congestion, clear nasal discharge, and itchy cough.
09 Huang Lian Shang Qing Tablets
Ingredients:Huang Lian (Coptis), Zhi Zi (Gardenia), Lian Qiao (Forsythia), Chao Man Jing Zi (Vitex), Fang Feng (Saposhnikovia), Jing Jie (Schizonepeta), Bai Zhi (Angelica), Huang Qin (Scutellaria), Ju Hua (Chrysanthemum), Bo He (Mint), Da Huang (Rhubarb), Huang Bai (Phellodendron), Jie Geng (Platycodon), Chuan Xiong (Ligusticum), Shi Gao (Gypsum), Xuan Fu Hua (Inula), Gan Cao (Licorice).
Efficacy:Disperses wind, clears heat, drains fire, and alleviates pain.
Indications:Used for wind-heat attacking, excess heat in the lung and stomach causing dizziness, fiery eye infections, tooth pain, mouth ulcers, sore throat, ear pain, tinnitus, constipation, and short, red urine.
Medication Tips:Not suitable for pregnant women and those with spleen and stomach deficiency.
10 Chuan Xin Lian Neolignan Drops
Ingredients:Chuan Xin Lian (Andrographis).
Efficacy:Clears heat and detoxifies, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory.
Indications:Used for sore throat caused by wind-heat in upper respiratory infections.
Medication Tips:Use with caution in cases of spleen and stomach deficiency with loose stools.
11 Qing Huo Tablets
Ingredients:Da Qing Ye (Isatis Leaf), Da Huang (Rhubarb), Shi Gao (Gypsum), Bo He (Mint).
Efficacy:Clears heat, drains fire, and promotes bowel movements.
Indications:Used for sore throat, toothache, dizziness, mouth and nose ulcers, wind-heat eye redness, and constipation.
Medication Tips:Not suitable for children and pregnant women. Use with caution in cases without excess heat.
12 Compound One-Branch Yellow Flower Spray
Ingredients:One-Branch Yellow Flower, Mountain Honeysuckle, Purple Qi Guanzhong, Lian Qiao (Forsythia), Jing Jie (Schizonepeta), Ai Na Xiang (Artemisia).
Efficacy:Clears heat and detoxifies, disperses wind-heat, and clears the throat.
Indications:Used for upper respiratory infections, acute and chronic pharyngitis, mouth and tongue ulcers, gum swelling, and bad breath.
Medication Tips:Spray in the mouth and nasal cavity. Not suitable for those with wind-cold colds and sore throats.
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