What Chinese medicine should I take for scarlet fever? Chinese medicine is the safest treatment

Scarlet fever is very common among children nowadays, and the disease is highly contagious. The main symptoms of patients are fever, rash, and pharyngitis. Chinese medicine can be used to treat scarlet fever, which has good therapeutic effects and causes little harm to the baby.

1. TCM treatment of scarlet fever

1. Evil invades the lung defense

[Treatment method] Spicy, cool, clear and penetrating, detoxifying and relieving sore throat.

[Prescription] Jieji Touzhen Decoction with modifications. Honeysuckle, forsythia, burdock, chrysanthemum, mint, schizonepeta, belamcanda, duckweed, and cicada shells. If the sore throat is severe, add Sophora flavescens and Platycodon grandiflorum; if a rash appears, add Lithospermum officinale and Isatis indigotica.

2. Evil enters the Qi camp

[Treatment method] Clear Qi and cool the body, purge fire and resolve toxins.

[Prescription] Qingwen Baidu Drink with modifications. Gypsum (fried first), raw rehmannia, moutan bark, anemarrhena, forsythia, scutellaria, scrophularia, coptis, and liquorice. If the high fever persists, add Han Shui Shi and Bupleurum; if you are restless, add Gardenia and Bamboo Leaves; if you are thirsty, add pollen and Reed Root.

3. Post-rash genital injury

[Treatment method] Nourish yin, clear away heat, promote fluid production and moisten the throat.

[Prescription] Modified Adenophora and Ophiopogon Decoction. Adenophora, Ophiopogon japonicus, Polygonatum odoratum, Dendrobium candidum, pollen, White Peony Root, and Licorice. If the low fever persists, add Cortex Moutan and Cortex Digu; if the thirst is severe, add Radix Phragmites and Scrophulariae.

2. Special prescriptions and proven recipes

1. Shiqing mixture: raw gypsum, isatis indigotica, and raw licorice. After decocting the above medicine, remove the residue and concentrate to 450ml. Then add 150ml of syrup. Take 30-60 ml daily, divided into 3 times. It is used for scarlet fever with heat entering the blood and severe toxic heat.

2. Cooling Blood and Detoxifying Decoction: Gypsum, Anemarrhena, Phragmites australis, Cortex Moutan, Scrophularia ningpoensis, Rehmannia glutinosa, Burdock fruit, Platycodon grandiflorum, Scorched Gardenia jasminoides, and Mung Bean Skin. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, divided into 3 times. Used for patients with severe scarlet fever.

3. Gan Jue Decoction: Platycodon, Radix Trichosanthis, Fructus Forsythiae, Cortex Lycii, Ophiopogon japonicus, Folium Isatidis, Radix Glehniae, Periostracum Cicadae, and licorice. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, divided into 2 doses. It is used for the late stage of scarlet fever when herpes subsides, fever and sore throat are relieved, skin desquamation occurs, and there is a slight fever in the body.

4. Anti-blemish soup: ginseng, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, gypsum powder, licorice, and rice. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, divided into 2 doses. It is used for patients in the late stage of scarlet fever when the residual heat has not subsided and the Qi and Yin have been damaged.