Sub Categories Within The Expel Dampness Category

Clear Damp-HeatDispel Wind-DampnessPromote Urination and Leach out DampnessTransform Damp TurbidityWarm and Transform Water and Dampness

Mo Yao

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Myrrh

Usages

• Invigorate blood, dispel blood stasis, reduces swelling, alleviate pain - trauma, sores, carbuncles, swellings, abdominal masses, painful obstruction, chest pain, abdominal pain, amenorrhea.
• Promotes healing of chronic non-healing sores.

This formula has cautions, see details

Yan Hu Suo

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Corydalis Rhizome

Usages

• Invigorate blood, alleviate pain - pain from blood stasis and trauma, dysmenorrhea.
• Promotes movement of Qi and alleviates pain - chest pain, abdominal pain, menstrual pain, hernial disorders, epigastric pain.

This formula has cautions, see details

Ba Ji Tian

Morinda Root

Usages

• Tonify kidneys, strengthen yang - impotence, male or female infertility, premature ejaculation, frequent urination, urinary incontinence, irregular menses, low back pain and weakness, cold and painful abdomen.
• Strengthen sinews and bones - back pain, muscular atrophy.
• Expel wind/damp cold - back and leg qi pain, bi syndromes.

Jiang Huang

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Tumeric Rhizome

Usages

• Invigorate blood, unblock menses - chest and abdominal pain, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, pain and swelling due to trauma.
• Promote the movement of Qi, alleviate pain - epigastric and/or abdominal pain.
• Expel wind, promote movement of blood - wind damp painful obstruction w/blood stasis (particularly in the shoulders).

Chuan Xiong

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Szechuan Lovage Root

Usages

• Invigorate blood, promote movement of Qi - any blood stasis pattern, important for gynecological issues (amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, difficult labor, lochioschesis).
• Expels wind and alleviates pain - headache (temporal, vertex), dizziness, painful obstructions, skin issues.
• Headache - moves qi upward and alleviates pain; headaches due to wind, heat, cold, blood deficiency.

Hai Tong Pi

Coral Bean Bark

Usages

• Dispels wind-damp (hot or cold), unblocks the channels - bi syndromes, especially in the lower back and/or knees or spasms of the extremities.
• Promotes urination, reduces edema - superficial edema due to dampness.
• Itchy skin - lesions, scabies.