Ba Zheng Wan Eight Herb Powder for Rectification - TCM Herbal Formula

Names Of Ba Zheng Wan

Ba Zheng Wan TCM Herbal Formula

English Name: Eight Herb Powder for Rectification
Pinyin Name: Ba Zheng Wan
Alternate Names: Dianthus Formula, Eight Herbs to Correct Formula, Eight Corrections Powder, Powder for Dispersing Heat and Promoting Urination
Chinese Character: 八正丸

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How Is Ba Zheng Wan Categorized?

Ba Zheng Wan Functional Groupings

Primary Category: Expel Dampness
Subcategory: Clear Damp-Heat

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Sub Categories Within The Expel Dampness Category

Clear Damp-Heat Dispel Wind-Dampness Promote Urination and Leach out Dampness Transform Damp Turbidity Warm and Transform Water and Dampness

There Are 21 Formulas In Our Expel Dampness Category

How Is Ba Zheng Wan Used Clinically?

Ba Zheng Wan Usages and Indications

Painful urination when it arises from damp heat syndrome - urinary tract infections, leukorrhea, cystitis.
Prostatitis when from damp heat.

Cautions and Contraindications

Pregnancy

Generally not for long-term use as it can lead to deficiency.
Avoid during pregnancy.

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Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Ba Zheng Wan

Ba Zheng Wan Related Conditions and Patterns

Leukorrhea Prostate Issues (BPH)Urinary Disorders (Lin Disease)Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)

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Bladder Damp Heat

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Notes From Our Clinicians For Ba Zheng Wan

Staff Clinical Notes

With similar issues but arising from kidney yang deficiency, then bi xie fen qing yin wan may be more appropriate.

Ba Zheng Wan Has 8Ingredients

Mu Tong

Akebia Caulis

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category

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.

This formula has cautions, see details

Qu Mai

Dianthus

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category

Usages

Clears damp heat, promotes urination, unblocks lin syndrome - for any lin, especially xue lin.
Breaks up blood stasis - amenorrhea due to blood stasis.
Unblocks the bowels - constipation.

This formula has cautions, see details

Bian Xu

Knotweed, Polygonoum

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category

Usages

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

Hua Shi

Talcum Powder

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category

Usages

Promotes urination, drains heat from the bladder - important herb for hot lin syndromes, also for damp heat generated diarrhea.
Clears heat, summer heat (w/urinary difficult) and damp-heat through urine.
Absorbs dampness (oozing eczema) - used topically for damp skin lesions.

Che Qian Zi

Plantago Seeds

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category

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.

This formula has cautions, see details

Zhi Zi

Cape Jasmine Fruit, Gardenia

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Fire category

Usages

Clears heat (Heart and Liver), eliminates irritability - heat patterns with fever, restlessness, insomnia, delirium, stifling sensation in the chest.
Drains damp heat - lin (urinary dysfunction) syndrome due to damp-heat in the lower warmer, damp-heat and constrained liver and gallbladder causing jaundice, damp-heat in the gall bladder and triple heater channels of the face - eyes, nose, sores in the mouth and face.
Cools the blood, stops bleeding - nosebleed, blood in vomit, stool, urine; (needs to partially charred).
Topically for blood stasis due to trauma, reduces swelling.

This formula has cautions, see details

Da Huang

Rhubarb

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Downward category

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

Zhi Gan Cao

Honey Fried Licorice Root

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Qi category

Usages

This preparation increases the qi tonifying aspects of the heart and spleen along with its general harmonizing function within formulas. See Gan Cao for complete information.