Based on the characteristics of the role of heat-clearing medicines and the main treatment of different diseases are divided into:
(1) heat-clearing and fire-clearing medicines: to clear the heat of the qi or internal organs as the main role. The taste is bitter cold or sweet cold. Can clear the real heat of the qi, applicable to external warmth disease qi heat; can diarrhea of the internal organs of the fire, applicable to the internal organs (lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, stomach) real heat evidence. The main drugs are gypsum, Zhimu, gardenia, rehmannia, Xiaku Cao.
(2)Heat-clearing and dampness-drying medicine: heat-clearing and dampness-drying as the main effect. Taste bitter cold, sex dry, can clear drying the evil of dampness and heat, also can clear heat and diarrhea, detoxification, applicable to dampness and heat evidence, such as dampness and temperature, summer dampness, dampness and heat obstruction, dampness and heat diarrhea, jaundice, bring down, gonorrhea, sores, and heat and toxin embedded disease evidence. The main drugs are: Scutellaria baicalensis, Coptis chinensis, Cyperus rotundus, gentian.
(3) Heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs: to clear heat and detoxification as the main role. Bitter and cold flavor, can clear heat and detoxification, suitable for external or internal heat fire poison blazing and surgical heat and poisonous sores, snake and insect bites and other evidence. The main drugs are: honeysuckle, forsythia, Panax quinquefolium, Da Qing Ye and so on.
(4) clear heat and cool blood medicine: to clear heat and cool blood as the main role. Sexual taste salty cold or sweet cold, bitter cold, into the blood, can clear the heat of the blood, applicable to heat disease evil into the blood and blood heat compulsion of blood hemorrhage and other yin deficiency. The main drugs are: raw di Huang, Xuan Shen, Mudan Pi and so on.
(5) clearing deficiency heat medicine: to improve or eliminate deficiency heat syndrome as the main role. More sweet and cold flavor, can clear the deficiency heat, suitable for Yin deficiency fever, bone vapor tide fever and fever in the late stage of the deficiency heat does not subside, night fever and early cold. The main drugs are: artemisia, ground bone skin and so on.