Ba Zheng Wan Functional Groupings

• Primary Category: Expel Dampness
• Subcategory: Clear Damp-Heat

Mu Tong

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Akebia Caulis

Usages

• Promotes urination, drains heat from the heart through the small intestine - irritability with sores of the mouth or tongue, scanty urination, lin syndrome, edema.
• Promotes lactation, unblocks the blood vessels - insufficient lactation, less commonly for amenorrhea and bi-syndrome.

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Bian Xu

Knotweed, Polygonoum

Usages

• Clears damp-heat in the bladder - promotes urination, damp-heat lin.
• Expels parasites - intestinal parasites.
• Damp skin lesions - itching.

Che Qian Zi

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Plantago Seeds

Usages

• Promotes urination, clears heat - edema, lin syndromes due to damp-heat, generally in the lower warmer.
• Solidifies the stool - diarrhea with damp-heat or damp-summerheat.
• Clears the eyes - liver and kidney deficiency (dry eyes or cataracts) or heat in the liver channel (red, painful, swollen eyes and sensitive to light).
• Lung heat - expels phlegm, stops cough.

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Da Huang

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Rhubarb

Usages

• Drains heat and purges accumulations - high fever, profuse sweating, thirst, constipation, abdominal distention and pain, delirium, yellow tongue coating, full pulse which indicates intestinal heat excess or yang ming stage illness.
• Drains heat from the blood - blood in the stool from bleeding hemorrhoids or heat in the intestine; vomting blood or nosebleed accompanied by constipation; painful eyes or fire toxin sores due to heat in the blood level.
• Drains damp-heat via the stool - jaundice, dysentery, lin syndrome.
• Invigorates the blood and dispels blood stasis - amenorrhea, abdominal masses, fixed pain due to blood stasis (recent and long-term blood stasis).
• Clears heat and reduces fire toxicity - for burns, hot skin.

This formula has cautions, see details