Fù Sū Kuī Jiǎ Tāng 復蘇 盔甲 汤

Restore the Body’s Armor

Fù Sū Kuī Jiǎ Tāng — the Restore the Armor Decoction, known as Skin Tea — is Si Jin Bao’s proprietary formula for the skin: clearing Heat, drying Dampness, eliminating Wind, and cooling and nourishing the Blood and Yin beneath an inflamed, reactive surface.

In Chinese medicine the skin is the body’s armor — its outermost defense against the world. When Wind, Damp, and Heat lodge in that layer, the armor turns against itself: it reddens, weeps, itches, scales, and erupts. This formula was built for exactly the skin presentations that resist conventional treatment, clearing the Heat and Damp that drive them while restoring the Yin and fluids that keep the surface calm.

Clear the Heat, Calm the Surface

Difficult skin is rarely only skin-deep. The classical view places stubborn dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis, and urticaria at the meeting of three factors — Wind that moves and itches, Damp that weeps and lingers, and Heat that reddens and inflames — often with the Blood and Yin scorched dry beneath. A formula that treats only the surface, or only one of these factors, tends to leave the others to drive the next flare.

Fù Sū Kuī Jiǎ Tāng answers all of them at once: it drains Heat downward, dries the Damp, disperses the Wind, cools the Blood, and replenishes the Yin fluid — so the surface can finally settle and the body’s armor can rebuild itself.

Wind, Damp & Heat in the Skin · 風濕熱

The pattern this formula answers is Wind-Damp-Heat lodged in the skin and Blood, frequently over a background of Yin and fluid depletion — the hot, itchy, weeping, scaling, or erupting surface that recurs and resists. It is the picture beneath the difficult skin types that conventional topical treatment alone often fails to resolve.

Nine Herbs: Clear, Dry, Disperse, Nourish

Dà Huáng drains Heat downward and clears Heat-toxin, giving the Heat trapped in the surface a route out through the bowel. Huáng Qín and Huáng Bǎi clear Heat and dry the Damp that weeps and inflames — Huang Qin working in the upper body, Huang Bai below.

Bei Zi Cao cools the Blood and clears Heat-toxin, the classical herb for red, erupting skin. Dì Fū Zǐ clears Damp-Heat and stops itching — the formula’s anti-pruritic. Shēng Dì Huáng cools the Blood and nourishes the Yin and fluids scorched beneath the Heat, so clearing does not leave the surface dry.

Jú Huā and Bò Hé disperse Wind-Heat and vent the surface — easing itchy, watery eyes and nose and moving the trapped Heat outward. And Gān Cǎo clears Heat-toxin while harmonizing the formula, moderating the cold, draining herbs so the whole works as one. Clear, dry, disperse, nourish.

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