Edema-Alleviating Diuretics
Name Xi Shuai (Chinese Cricket) Nature and action Nature Pungent, salty, warm, toxic; kidney and bladder channels. Actions Promote diuresis and break blood.
Stranguria-Relieving Diuretics
Mao Mu Tong: clear heat and relieve sore throat, promote urination and relieve strangury, activate blood and alleviate pain.
Edema-Alleviating Diuretics
Name Xi Shuai (Chinese Cricket) Nature and action Nature Pungent, salty, warm, toxic; kidney and bladder channels. Actions Promote diuresis and break blood.
Stranguria-Relieving Diuretics
Yi Xing Suo Cao: it is used to promote the flow ofqi, activate blood circulation, relieve dysuria and promote diuresis; for the treatment of dysuria with urethral pain, traumatic injuries, vomiting blood.
Edema-Alleviating Diuretics
Di Ku Lou: help digestion, promote diuresis, open the inhibited lung-energy and resolve phlegm.
Stranguria-Relieving Diuretics
异型莎草: it is used to promote the flow ofqi, activate blood circulation, relieve dysuria and promote diuresis; for the treatment of dysuria with urethral pain, traumatic injuries, vomiting blood.
Edema-Alleviating Diuretics
Name Di Ku Lou (Raphanus sativus) Nature and action Nature Pungent, neutral, sweet; spleen, stomach and lung channels.
Stranguria-Relieving Diuretics
Yi Yu: promote urination, treat strangury, expel wind and improve eyesight, remove toxicity.
Edema-Alleviating Diuretics
Name Chong Sun (henon bamboo dried shoot) Nature and action Nature Sweet, bland; spleen and bladder channels. Actions Promote diuresis and resolve swelling.
Stranguria-Relieving Diuretics
Name Yi Yu (Silverfish) Sources The drug is the dried whole body of Lepisma saccharina L.
Name Jian Er Guan Zhong (Caryota-like holly fern rhizome) Sources The drug is the dried rhizome of Cyrtomium macrophyllum (Makino) Tagawa (family Dryopteridaceae), growing under wo.
Edema-Alleviating Diuretics
Name Chong Sun (henon bamboo dried shoot) Nature and action Nature Sweet, bland; spleen and bladder channels. Actions Promote diuresis and resolve swelling.