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title: "Bai Fan"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/399/bai-fan"
---

 ![bai fan, alumen.jpg](/u/bai-fan-alumen-8sFKqP.jpg) 

# 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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