01. Acrid-warm Sudorifics
     • Angelicae Dahuricae Radix
     • Cinniamomi Ramulus

02. Acrid-cool Sudorifics
     • Menthae Herba
     • Chrysanthemi Flos

Sudorifics or diaphoretics are surface-resolving drugs. “Surface-resolving” means to disperse and dispel surface evils.

When the human body is subjected to the influence and affliction of foreign pathological factors such as wind, chills, moisture, and summer heat, it develops such symptoms as chillphobia, fever, headache, stiff neck and shoulders, generalized aching, limbic asthenia, and hidrosis or anhidrosis. Drugs that relieve or eliminate these symptoms are known as “surface-resolving” drugs or sudorifics. By inducing perspiration these drugs relieve muscular aches and pains.

Sudorifics are categorized into Acrid-warm Sudorifics and Acrid-cool Sudorifics according to their particular essence, flavour and clinical symptoms.

01. Acrid-warm Sudorifics

Used to disperse wind chills.

• Treat mild fever, severe chill phobia, headache and body ache in the absence of thirst, and surface-conformation symptoms of wind chills. This type of sudorific is contraindicated with profuse sweating,, and in the final stage of a fever disease when body fluids have been exhausted and impaired.

02. Acrid-cool Sudorifics

• Used to disperse wind fever. They treat high fever, mild chill phobia, headache thirst, and the surface-conformation symptoms of wind fever.