Bai Fan #

Alumen #

sour, astringent, cold

PRIMARY FUNCTION: #

Topical Application

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:

• Parasite infections
  • Scabies
• Rash
  • Especially heat patterns
• Swollen throat
• Especially heat patterns
• Irritated eyes
  • Especially heat patterns
• Jaundice
  • Especially heat patterns
• Sores
  • Especially damp-heat patterns
• Diarrhea
  • Bai Fan is astringent and sour
• Vaginal discharge
  • Bai Fan is astringent and sour
• Convulsions
• Delirium
• Cough
• Bleeding disorders
  • Bleeding gums
  • Bleeding hemorrhoids
  • Epistaxis
  • Hemafecia
  • Traumas

Bai Fan is sour, astringent, and cold. The cold property makes it useful on heat patterns and damp-heat patterns especially topically. It enters the large intestine, lung, liver, and spleen systems to treat disorders of the gastrointestinal tract such as diarrhea or bloody stool and it treats disorders of the lung such as cough.

Channels: lung, large intestine, liver, spleen

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL POSSIBILITIES:

• Diarrhea
• Hemafecia
• Hemorrhoids
• Hepatitis
  • Enters liver system to increase phase II functions
• Jaundice
  • Enters liver system to increase phase II
• Gall stones
  • Improves biliary flow
• Epilepsy
  • Wind related to liver dysfunction
• Cough
• Burns
  • Topical application
• Eczema
  • Topical application
• Rash
  • Topical application
• Ringworm
  • Topical application
• Excess sweating
• Leukorrhea
• Antimicrobial
• Otitis media

Formulas:

• Hua Chong Wan

Contraindications: Bai Fan is primarily for external application and should be used cautiously when prescribing it to a patient orally, do not prescribe it orally when the patient has poor digestive function of if the patient does not present with patterns of damp-heat

Zoo Image: a crazy convulsing monkey with bloody diarrhea and parasites is full of itchy oozing sores

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