HERB FORMULAS

SHI WEI SAN - 石韦散 - PYRROSIA POWDER

English: Pyrrosia Powder
Also Known As: Pyrrosia Leaf Powder

HERBS AND ACTIONS

Pharmaceutical Latin
Pin Yin
Dosage
Actions
Fol. Pyrrosiae Shi Wei 6-15g Clears Damp-Heat, unblocks Lin, clears stones and stops bleeding.
With Qu Mai and Hua Shi, for painful urination due to Damp-Heat in the Lower Jiao.
With Qu Mai, Hua Shi and Dong Kui Zi, for hematuria.
With Pu Huang, for Blood Lin with stabbing pain.
With Che Qian Zi and Qu Mai, for Heat Lin.
Caulis Akebiae Mu Tong 3-10g Promotes urination.
With Dong Kui Zi, for urinary frequency, pain and difficulty.
With Che Qian Zi, for Lin Syndrome and Heart Fire Transferring to the Small Intestine channel causing edema and painful urinary dysfunction.
Sm. Plantaginis Che Qian Zi 6-12g Promotes urination and clears Heat.
With Dong Kui Zi, for urinary calculi.
With Mu Tong and Huan Shi, for Lin Syndrome.
Hb. Dianthi Qu Mai 3-15g Promotes urination, drains Damp-Heat from Urinary Bladder, unblocks Lin and breaks up Blood Stasis.
With Che Qian Zi and Huan Shi, for Heat dysuria (Re Lin) with burning and pain during urination.
Sm. Abutili/Malvae Dong Kui Zi 3-15g Promotes urination and unblocks Lin.
With Mu Tong, for Damp-Heat in the Lower Jiao and pediatric Lin.
Talcum Hua Shi 6-30g Promotes urination, drains Heat from Urinary Bladder, expels Damp-Heat through the urine and aids movement of gravel and stones.
With Dong Kui Zi, for Damp-Heat in the Lower Jiao causing urinary discomfort and dysfunction.
With Gan Cao, for Summerheat causing painful urinary dysfunction, thirst, irritability, and fever.
With Mu Tong, for Heat Lin.
Rx. Glycyrrhizae Gan Cao 1-3g Moderates and harmonizes the harsh properties of other herbs.

FORMULA ACTIONS

  • Promotes urination
  • Eliminates urinary calculi

SYNDROMES

  • Urinary Bladder Damp-Heat
  • Stone Lin
  • Urinary calculi

CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS

  • Burning urinary pain
  • Frequent urination
  • Urgent urination
  • Yellowish red, turbid urine
  • Small stones in the urine
  • Sudden discontinuation of urination
  • Subtle pain in the lower abdomen and low back
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow and greasy
  • P: Wiry and rapid or Tight and rapid

TREATS

CONTRAINDICATIONS AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
  • Contraindicated during pregnancy.
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

NOTES

MODIFICATIONS

For urolithiasis: For hematuria:
+ Hb. Lysimachiae Jin Qian Cao + Hb. Cirsii Xiao Ji
+ Spora Lygodii Hai Jin Sha + Pollen Typhae Pu Huang
+ Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli Ji Nei Jin + Cx. Moutan Radicis Mu Dan Pi
For a stronger effect:
For Blood Stagnation:
+10g Rx. Paeoniae Rubra Chi Shao
+10g Rx. Paeoniae Rubra Chi Shao
+ 10g Rz. Atractylodis Macrocephalae Bai Zhu
+ 10g Sm. Vaccariae Wang Bu Liu Xing
+ 10g Rx. Angelicae Sinensis Dang Gui + 10g Sm. Vaccariae Wang Bu Liu Xing
+ 10g Rx. Angelicae Sinensis Dang Gui
For polyuria with stones:
- Caulis Akebiae Mu Tong
For polyuria with stones and damaged Yin:
- Rx. Glycyrrhizae Gan Cao - Caulis Akebiae Mu Tong
+ 15g Hb. Lysimachiae Jin Qian Cao - Rx. Glycyrrhizae Gan Cao
+15g Spora Lygodii Hai Jin Sha - Rx. et Rz. Rhei Da Huang
+ 15g Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli Ji Nei Jin + 9g Rz. Anemarrhenae Zhi Mu
+ 9g Rx. Rehmanniae Sheng Di Huang
For sand strangury with severe, cutting distention and pain stretching to the low back, urethra or perineum and is worse during urination, sand in the urine and maybe hematuria:
 + 9g Rz. Imperatae Bai Mao Gen
For low back pain:
- Caulis Akebiae Mu Tong
- Rx. Glycyrrhizae Gan Cao
- Caulis Akebiae Mu Tong + 9g Rx. Polygoni Avicularis Bian Xu
- Rx. Glycyrrhizae Gan Cao
+ 15g Hb. Lysimachiae Jin Qian Cao + 9g Rx. Cyathulae Chuan Niu Xi
+ 15g Spora Lygodii Hai Jin Sha + 9g Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli Ji Nei Jin
For low back pain with bloody Lin:
- Caulis Akebiae Mu Tong + 30g Hb. Lysimachiae Jin Qian Cao
- Rx. Glycyrrhizae Gan Cao + 12g Spora Lygodii Hai Jin Sha
+ 9g Rx. Polygoni Avicularis Bian Xu + 5g Succinum Hu Po
   
+ 9g Rx. Cyathulae Chuan Niu Xi    
+ 9g Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli Ji Nei Jin    
   
+ 30g Hb. Lysimachiae Jin Qian Cao    
+ 12g Spora Lygodii Hai Jin Sha    
+ 5g Succinum Hu Po    
+ 9g Hb. Cirsii Xiao Ji    
+ 9g Rz. Imperatae Bai Mao Gen