Category
Drain Dampness
Pin Yin
Latin Name
Alismatis Rhizoma
English Name
Dosage
4.5-9g
Entering Channels
KD
Flavor
bland
Temperature
cold
Pregnancy
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Chinese Herbal Formulas (Comprehensive List)
Individual Essential Oils
Kampo Name
Kampo Number
Kanji
Katakana
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Key Characteristics:
Cautions & Contraindications:
- Use with caution in those with sunken middle burner qi.
Actions & Indications:
- Promotes urination and leaches out dampness: for the stagnation associated with dampness with such symptoms as urinary difficulty, edema, painful urinary dribbling, diarrhea, or dizziness. Especially useful when there is damp-heat in the lower burner.
- Settles ministerial fire in the Kidneys by draining damp-heat from the lower burner: spermatorrhea due to lower burner damp-heat disturbing the ministerial fire of the Kidneys.
