INDIVIDUAL HERBS

Pharmaceutical Latin:	Pumex
Common English:	Pumice Pumus

Taste	Temperature	Entering Meridians	Dosage
Salty	Cold	Lung	6-15g

Actions	Indications/Syndromes
Clears Heat from the Lungs and transforms Phlegm	Heat Accumulation in the Lungs with viscous, difficult-to-expectorate sputum or hemoptysis Usually used for long-term disorders
Softens hardness and dissipates Phlegm nodules	Scrofula and similar disorders caused by Phlegm-Fire
Promotes urination and unblocks the upper source for water (Lungs)	Hot, stony painful urinary dysfunction (Stone Lin) Dysuria

CONTRAINDICATIONS

Contraindicated for those with cough and rebellious Qi due to Deficient Qi rushing upward.
Contraindicated for those with Phlegm and thin mucus due to Spleen and Stomach Deficiency.
Use caution for those with cough caused by Deficiency and Cold.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

Arisaema cum Bile Dan Nan Xing Bul. Fritillariae Cirrhosae Chuan Bei Mu Sm. Sinapis Bai Jie Zi	Sm. Trichosanthis Gua Lou Ren Fr. Chebulae He Zi Fr. Gardeniae Zhi Zi or Fr. Trichosanthis Gua Lou Concha Meretricis/Cyclinae Ge Qiao Fr. Gardeniae Zhi Zi	Concha Ostreae Mu Li Bul. Fritillariae Thunbergii Zhe Bei Mu Sargassum Hai Zao Thallus Eckloniae Kun Bu
Cough and wheezing due to Phlegm-Heat with difficult-to-expectorate yellow sputum which is so viscous that it comes out in clumps.	Chronic cough from Lung Heat with blood-streaked sputum.	Scrofula and goiter from Phlegm-Heat.
Caulis Akebiae Mu Tong Talcum Hua Shi Sm. Plantaginis Che Quan Zi	Rx. Glycyrrhizae Gan Cao or Rx. Glycyrrhizae Gan Cao Hb. Lygodii Hai Jin Sha Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli Ji Nei Jin Hb. Lysimachiae Jin Qian Cao	Fr. Trichosanthis Gua Lou
Bloody or stony painful urinary dysfunction.	Stony painful urinary dysfunction.	Cools the Lungs and transforms Phlegm-Heat to treat Phlegm stifling the chest which is difficult to expectorate.
Fr. Forsythiae Lian Qiao Thallus Eckloniae Kun Bu Rx. Scrophulariae Xuan Shen
Scrofula and goiter.

This is a mineral produced by volcanic eruptions.
Both Fu Shi and Fr. Trichosanthis Gua Lou cool the Lungs and transform Phlegm-Heat to treat Phlegm stifling the chest which is difficult to expectorate. Fu Shi is cold and salty and mainly dissolves old Phlegm accumulations and nodules and treats Bloody Lin. Gua Lou is sweet and cold, moistens and descends rebellious Qi to ease discomfort in the chest and guides Phlegm-Heat downward.
Both Fu Shi Concha Meretricis/Cyclinae Ge Qiao and are salty, cold, clear the Lungs, transform viscous Phlegm and soften areas of hardness. Both are used for cough with Phlegm that is difficult to expectorate due to Phlegm-Heat, scrofula and urinary difficulty. Ge Qiao is heavy and descends Qi. It acts to reduce abdominal masses and eliminate Blood Stagnation. Fu Shi is light and tends to ascend into the Lung channel and Upper Jiao.
Both Fu Shi and Flos Inulae Xuan Fu Hua are salty and thus able to soften hardened Phlegm. They are often combined to treat clumped viscous sputum that is difficult to expectorate. Xuan Fu Hua is warm, bitter and acrid to guide Qi downward in the treatment of cough, wheezing and nausea. Fu Shi is cold and better for hot viscous Phlegm or Lung Heat injuring the collaterals leading to hemoptysis.
Calcined Pumex Duan Fu Shi is somewhat astringent to restrain and inhibit.