HERB FORMULAS

BEI XIE SHEN SHI TANG - DIOSCOREAE DECOCTION TO LEACH OUT DAMPNESS

English: Dioscorea Decoction to Leach Out Dampness
Also Known As: Dioscorea Seep Damp Decoction

HERBS AND ACTIONS

Pharmaceutical Latin
Pin Yin
Dosage
Actions
Sm. Coicis Yi Yi Ren 20-30g Promotes urination, leaches out Dampness, strengthens the Spleen, clears Heat, expels Wind-Dampness, clears Damp-Heat and nourishes the skin.
With Fu Ling and Hua Shi, for Damp-Heat diarrhea.
Talc Hua Shi 15-30g Promotes urination, absorbs Dampness topically from skin lesions, and expels Damp-Heat through the urine.
Rz. Dioscoreae Hypoglaucae Bei Xie 9-20g Separates the pure from the turbid, resolves turbid Dampness in the Lower Jiao, expels Wind-Dampness and clears Damp-Heat from the skin.
Poria Fu Ling 10-12g Promotes urination, resolves Dampness, strengthens the Spleen and transforms Phlegm.
With Ze Xie, facilitates the removal of water and leaches out Dampness to treat stagnant water and Dampness leading to edema, jaundice, diarrhea, Milky Lin, and scanty, difficult urination with abdominal distention.
Cx. Phellodendri Huang Bai 10g Drains Damp-Heat especially from the Lower Jiao, drains Deficiency Fire, drains Fire and relieves toxicity.
Cx. Moutan Radicis Mu Dan Pi 10g Clears Heat, cools the Blood, drains pus, and reduces swelling.
Rz. Alismatis Ze Xie 10g Promotes urination, drains Dampness and settles ministerial Fire in the Kidneys by draining Damp-Heat from the lower Jiao .
With Mu Dan Pi, for steaming bone disorder, dizziness, and vertigo.
Medulla Tetrapanacis Tong Cao 6g Promotes urination and clears Heat.
With Hua Shi and Yi Yi Ren, for Summer-Heat with Turbid Dampness causing painful urinary dysfunction, a stuffy chest, heaviness in the body, and headache.

FORMULA ACTIONS

  • Clears Heat
  • Invigorates the Blood
  • Resolves Dampness
  • Eliminates toxins

SYNDROMES

  • Damp-Heat.
  • Damp-Heat in the Lower Jiao
  • Damp-Heat with Blood Stasis

CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS

  • Skin lesions with profuse fluid discharge
  • Fever
  • Thirst
  • Dry mouth with no desire to drink
  • Anorexia
  • Body heavy
  • Limbs tired
  • Fullness in chest
  • Lump in epigastrium
  • Leukorrhagia with thick, yellowish, foul discharge
  • Frequent, scanty , reddish urination
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow and greasy
  • P : Slippery and rapid

TREATS

  • Chronic ulcer of the lower limbs
  • Prostatic abscess
  • Prostatitis
  • Cervicitis
  • Gonorrhea
  • Trichomonas vaginitis

CONTRAINDICATIONS AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

NOTES

MODIFICATIONS

For increasing the effects of the formula: For eczema:
+ Rz. Atractylodis Cang Zhu
+ Two-Marvel Powder 
Er Miao San
+ Rx. Sophorae Flavescentis
For eczema on the lower limbs:
+ Cx. Dictamni Radicis
+ Two-Marvel Powder
Er Miao San
For eczema on the abdominal region:
+ 10g. Rx. Achyranthis Bidentatae
- Cx. Phellodendri
+ 10g. Sm. Plantaginis
+ Two-Marvel Powder
Er Miao San
For eczema on the lower limbs with constipation:
+ 10g. Rz. Coptidis
+ Rz. et Rx. Rhei
+ 10g. Rx. Scutellariae