UB, HT, ST (15-30g)
Xi Gua - Watermelon for Coffee
Watermelon (Xi Gua) is a great remedy if you drink too much coffee
in the summer heat and come down with jaundice.
Be careful not to over-do it or you'll get (cc: excessive damp-cold or middle jiao deficient cold)
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Explanation of Key Words in this story... |
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| coffee | generates fluids; promotes urination |
| summer heat | clears summer heat |
| jaundice | resolves jaundice |
Xi Gua Actions and Indications
- Clears summer heat; generates fluids (relieves thirst, for summer heat patterns; especially with dark scanty urine and dry heaves)
- Promotes urination; resolves jaundice (edema with thirst, icteric hepatitis with jaundice; excess pathological fluids with deficiency of beneficial fluids)
- (cc: excessive damp-cold or middle jiao deficient cold)
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Alternative Forms:
- Xi Gua Pi (watermelon rind) - Promotes urination, clears summer heat, relieves thirst: Xi Gua Pi is commonly used to treat dysuria with summer heat that is damaging body fluids.
- Xi Gua Cui Pi (outermost green skin of watermelon rind) - stronger to clear ST heat and summer dampness.
- Xi Gua Shuang (watermelon frost) - clears heat, relieves toxicity, sore throat, toothache, thirst; topical use for sores in mouth, gums; 1-2gm. Xi Gua Shuang is prepared by cutting 8-9 lb watermelon at the stem end, removing some flesh, adding 500 gm of mang xiao, re-capping it, and placing in a ventilated, cool, dark place for 10 days: a crystalling "frost" develops on the skin: available in powder and pill.
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Special Notes:
- Xi Gua is commonly known as "natural Bai Hu Tang" decoction because it clears heat from the yangming.
- Xi Gua Pi more strongly promotes urination while Xi Gua more effectively clears summer heat and dampness.
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