Bile Arisaema

Traditional Use

Primary Actions

• Clears heat-phlegm and opens obstruction - used for thick turbid phlegm, heat signs, and clouded consciousness when phlegm lodges in the Lung or sensory orifices.
• Extinguishes wind and relieves convulsive disorders - a focused processing form for epilepsy, stroke, pediatric fright, and phlegm-heat spasms.
• Targets phlegm-heat cough and rattling sputum - especially when the cough is secondary to hot, tenacious phlegm rather than cold-damp accumulation.
• Embodies the abbreviation of Dan Nan Xing - Dan Xing is simply the shortened trade or prescription name for the same bile-processed Arisaema medicine.

Secondary Actions

• This record is preserved separately only because the source spreadsheet used the abbreviated name Dan Xing instead of the full Dan Nan Xing.
• Its use is strongest where internal wind and phlegm-heat combine, not where dryness, qi deficiency, or purely cold-phlegm predominates.

Classic Formulas

• Niu Huang Bao Long Wan (牛黄抱龙丸) - classic heat-phlegm convulsion pill that uses Dan Xing or Dan Nan Xing to cool phlegm and calm fright.
• Qi Zhen Dan (七珍丹) - pediatric fright-convulsion formula tradition incorporating Dan Xing to settle phlegm-heat disturbance.

Classical References

• TCM Wiki explicitly lists Dan Xing as an alternate name under Dan Nan Xing, confirming that the two slugs represent the same processed medicine rather than distinct herbs.
• Processing with bile is the defining feature of this drug identity and is what distinguishes it from warm toxic Tian Nan Xing in both nature and indication.
• IMPORT NOTE: This `-2` slug is a synonym record, not a separate species or separate processed product.