Climbing Fern Spore (hai jin sha)  

Spora Lygodii

Properties: The herb is sweet in flavour, and cold in nature. It acts on the urinary bladder and small intestine channels, Being sweet and tasteless for inducing diuresis and excreting dampness, and cold for clearing heat, the herb can eliminate damp-heat to treat stranguria. Particularly good at relieving stranguria, it is often used to treat severely difficult and painful stranguria due to heat or caused by the passage of urinary stone.

Indications:

The herb can be used in combination with bamboo leaf, capejasmine fruit, field thistle, raw rehmannia root and other herbs for inducing diuresis, treating stranguria, removing heat from blood and stopping bleeding, to treat stranguria due to heat and stranguria with blood; and with talc, plantain seed, lysimachia and other herbs for inducing diuresis and removing urinary calculus, to treat unbearably difficult and painful stranguria from urolithiasis and stranguria caused by the passage of urinary stone.

Dosage and Administration: 6-12g. Wrapped in gauze and decocted in water.