Shi Gao
Gypsum Fibrosum
acrid, sweet, very cold
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Clear Heat and Drain Fire
CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- High fever
- Irritability
- Thirst
- Sweating
- Big flooding pulse
- Red tongue with yellow coat
- Toothache
- Headache
- Swollen painful gums
- Eczema
- Burns
- Ulcers
- Sores
Shi Gao is acrid, sweet, and very cold. It enters the lung and stomach systems to treat pathologies that are very hot in nature.
Shi Gao is known for treating the yangming stage of disease that presents with the four bigs: big pulse, big fever, big thirst, and big sweating. There are no chills in this stage of pathogenic effect.
Channels: lung, stomach
COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL POSSIBILITIES:
- Fever
- Flu
- Epidemic disorders
- Extreme thirst with illness
- Pneumonia
- Diarrhea
- Cough
- Manic disposition
- Abscesses
- Excess sweating
- Hypertension
- Dysglycemia
- Burns
- Biliary congestion
Formulas:
- Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tang
- Bai Hu Tang
- Chai Ge Jie Ji Tang
- Da Qin Jiao Tang
- Da Qing Long Tang
- Fang Feng Tong Sheng San
- Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang
- Qing Wen Bai Du Yin
- Qing Zao Jiu Fei Tang
- Wu Hu Tang
- Xiao Feng San
- Xie Huang San
- Xin Yi Qing Fei Yin
- Yu Nu Jian
- Yue Bi Tang
- Zhu Ye Shi Gao Tang
- Zi Xue Dan
Contraindications: do not prescribe Shi Gao to patients that present with poor digestive function or deficiency heat patterns
Zoo Image: a walrus with a bad tooth and a yangming puff is swimming through two hoops: the four bigs and a fire hoop