Oriental
Water Plantain Rhizome
(ze xie)
Rhizoma
Alismatis
Properties:
This herb is sweet and tasteless in flavour, cold in
nature. It acts on the kidney and urinary bladder
channels. Being sweet and tasteless for inducing diuresis
and excreting dampness, and cold for clearing heat and
removing fire, the herb can remove water dampness to
alleviate edema, and is good at clearing heat and fire to
eliminate fever of deficiency type. Therefore, it is often
used to treat edema, abdominal distention, strangury due
to heat with pain, fever due to Yin-deficiency and other
syndromes.
Effects:
Inducing diuresis, excreting
dampness, eliminating heat and fire.
Indications:
1.
This herb can be used in combination with umbellate
pore-fungus, poria, astragalus root, white atractylodes
rhizome and other herbs for supplementing Qi, inducing
diuresis and alleviating edema, to treat edema, abdominal
distention and dysuria caused by spleen deficiency and
excessive dampness; and with white atractylodes rhizome,
atractylodes rhizome, poria, tangerine peel and other
herbs for strengthening the spleen, removing dampness and
eliminating fluid retention from the interior, to treat
diarrhea due to spleen deficiency and excessive dampness,
or treat dizziness due to phlegm retention and other
syndromes.
2.
This herb can be used in combination with
phellodendron bark, rice paper pith, plantain seed and
other herbs for clearing heat and dampness, to treat
stranguria and leukorrhagia caused by downward flow of
damp-heat; and with prepared rehmannia root, Chinese yam,
moutan bark and other herbs for nourishing Yin and
removing fire, such as Liuwei Dihuang Pill, to treat
deficiency of kidney-yin, hectic fever due to
Yin-deficiency and night sweating.
Dosage
and Administration: 5-10g.
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