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
How Is Ba Zheng Wan Categorized?
Ba Zheng Wan Functional Groupings
- Primary Category: Expel Dampness
- Subcategory: Clear Damp-Heat
Sub Categories Within The Expel Dampness Category
Clear Damp-HeatDispel Wind-DampnessPromote Urination and Leach out DampnessTransform Damp TurbidityWarm 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
- Generally not for long-term use as it can lead to deficiency.
- Avoid during pregnancy.
Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Ba Zheng Wan

Ba Zheng Wan Related Conditions and Patterns
LeukorrheaProstate 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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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