Pyrrosia
Leaf (shi wei)
Folium
Pyrrosia
Properties:
The herb is sweet and bitter in flavour, slightly cold in
nature. It acts on the lung and urinary bladder channels.
Being sweet and cold for eliminating fire, and bitter and
cold for expelling heat, the herb can clear lung-heat,
normalize functions of the urinary bladder, and remove
heat from blood to stop bleeding. Therefore, it is often
used to treat stranguria due to heat, stranguria with
blood, cough due to lung-heat, and bleeding due to
blood-heat.
Effects:
Inducing diuresis to treat stranguria, removing heat from
the lung to dissolve phlegm, and eliminating heat from
blood to stop bleeding.
Indications:
1. To treat
stranguria due to heat, stranguria with blood, and
dribbling urination with difficulty and pain, the herb is
often used in combination with capejasmine fruit, cat-tail
pollen, talc, climbing fern spore and other drugs for
clearing heat to treat stranguria, and for removing heat
from blood to stop bleeding.
2.To treat cough
due to accumulation of phlegm and heat in the lung, yellow
sputum and sore throat, the herb can be used alone with
its decoction, or in combination with scutellaria root,
fritillary bulb, platycodon root and other herbs for
removing heat from the lung to dissolve phlegm.
In addition, to
treat various kinds of bleeding, such as hemolysis and
epistaxis due to blood-heat, the herb can be used in
combination with Japanese thistle, field thistle,
cogongrass rhizome, raw rehmannia root and other cooling
herbs to stop bleeding.
Dosage and
Administration: 5-10g.
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