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Yu Bai Pi

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Yu Bai Pi: promote urination, treat strangury, eliminate phlegm, resolve swelling and remove toxicity.

Yu Bai Pi
Yu Bai Pi — Traditional Chinese Medicine Healing Herbs

榆白皮

Name

Yu Bai Pi (Siberian elm bark)

The Effect of Yu Bai Pi

Property

Sweet, neutral; lung, spleen and bladder meridians entered.

Actions

Induce diuresis, treat stranguria, eliminate phlegm, resolve swelling and remove toxicity.

Indications

Insomnia, sore and boils, scabies, difficult urination, favus of the scalp, leucorrhea, stranguria with turbid discharge, cough with excessive phlegm, internal hemorrhage, external hemorrhage, retension of dead fetus.

Dosage and Administrations

Decoct 9~15 g, or made into powder. Proper dosage is for external application, pounded for applying or decocted for washing.

Cautions

It is contraindicated in case of deficiency cold in the stomach.

When to see a doctor: herbal care suits mild, everyday issues. For worsening, severe, or sudden symptoms — or if you are pregnant, on medication, or treating a child — consult a licensed practitioner first.

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