Dampness-dispelling Formulae
Dampness is a heavy, sluggish pathogen that leads to disorders processing slowly and lingering inside the body. When it invades the body, there will be sluggishness, tiredness, heavy limbs, a feeling of distention in the head, stiffness and pain in the joints, or limb puffiness. Any bodily discharge tends to be sticky and turbid and the tongue shows a greasy coat. Entry of the pathogen originates in two ways, one is externally contracted from the living environment and the other is transformed by an impaired spleen caused by an improper diet or emotional upset. Furthermore, disturbances in water metabolism can also lead to dampness disorders which cause edema, urinary difficulty and respiratory symptoms.
TCM strategies for dispelling dampness include drying, excreting, facilitating urination and purgation. These formulae are mainly composed of pungent, aromatic, warm substances that dry the dampness or sweat and bland substances that leach out dampness. They should be used carefully in those suffering from body fluid exhaustion, weakness after illness and in pregnant women.
TCM strategies for dispelling dampness include drying, excreting, facilitating urination and purgation. These formulae are mainly composed of pungent, aromatic, warm substances that dry the dampness or sweat and bland substances that leach out dampness. They should be used carefully in those suffering from body fluid exhaustion, weakness after illness and in pregnant women.
- Agastache Powder for Healthy Qi (huo xiang zheng qi san)
- Calm the Stomach Powder (ping wei san)
- Cnidium Fruit decoction (she chuang zi tang)
- Coix Seed Decoction (yi yi ren tang)
- Dispelling Painful Obstruction Decoction (xuan bi tang)
- Five-accumulation Powder (wu ji san)
- Five Ingredients Powder with Poria (wu ling san)
- Five-God Decoction (wu shen tang)
- Four-Wonder Pill (si miao wan)
- Liquorice, Ginger, Poria and Atractylodes Decoction (gan jiang ling zhu tang)
- Poison Yam Draining Dampness Decoction (bi xi shen shi tang)
- Pubescent Angelica and Mistletoe Decoction (du huo ji sheng tang)
- Removing Painful Obstruction Decoction (juan bi tang)
- Rooster Crowing Powder (ji ming san)
- Three-kernel Decoction (san ren tang)
- Three-wonder Sargentglory Vine-stem Decoction (san miao hong teng tang)
- Two-wonder Powder (er miao san)
- Weiling Decoction (wei ling tang)
- Wormwood Decoction (yin chen hao tang)
