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Xi Gua in TCM:

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.

• 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)

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.