Class: Eliminate Dampness
Subclass: Warm and Transform Damp-Cold
Actions:
Diuretic
Warms Spleen-Yang and Kidney-Yang
Indications:
1) Kidney Yang Deficiency, or Spleen and Kidney Yang Deficiency, with retention of pathogenic water (anuria, oliguria).
2) Externally-contracted Wind-Cold at the greater Yang-stage.
Possible symptoms and diseases:
Ascites (cirrhosis of liver) (indication 1)
Chills (indication 2)
Chronic enteritis (indication 1)
Chronic nephritis (indication 1)
Cirrhosis (indication 1)
Congestive heart failure (indication 1)
Cough (indication 1)
Deep pain and heaviness of extremities (indication 1)
Diarrhea (indication 1)
Dizziness (indication 2)
Feeling of pulsation in epigastrium (indication 2)
Generalized oedema (indication 1)
Loose stools (indication 1)
Pain of the abdomen which is worse with cold (indication 1)
Palpitations (indication 1)
Spontaneous sweating that does not relieve the fever (indication 2)
Tremors (indication 2)
Vomiting (indication 1)
Acute articular rheumatism (indication 1)
Chronic bronchitis (indication 1)
Dizziness (indication 1)
Hypothyroidism (indication 1)
Instability (indication 2)
Intestinal tuberculosis (indication 1)
Ménière's disease (indication 1)
Primary hyperaldosteronism (indication 1)
Primary hypertension (indication 1)
Rheumatoid arthritis (indication 1)
Sensation of heaviness of the head (indication 1)
Pale or dark, swollen, tooth-marked tongue, slippery-white coating (indication 1)
Tongue with a white-slippery coating (indication 2)
Fine-Deep-Forceless pulse (Xi Chen Wu Li) (indications 1, 2)
Western Medicine application:
Ascites, Meniere's disease, chronic bronchitis, chronic enteritis, intestinal tuberculosis.
Contraindications:
Contraindicated if Heat or Humidity Heat.
Contraindicated if there is Yin Insufficiency.
Preparation and recommended use:
DECOCTION: 30 g per liter. Reduction to 40 cl.
Absorb in 3 times a day.