bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

The first two medicines are taken as powder, 5 grams per dose, three times a day, taken with ginger juice; or made into small pills, 10 grams per dose, three times a day, taken with warm water; they can also be decocted with water twice and taken in two doses. Two doses are taken daily.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Clearing heat and drying dampness.

bubble_chart Indications

Redness, swelling, heat, and pain in the foot and knee joints, or pain in the bones and muscles, or weakness and wilting impediment, short and yellow urine, with a yellow and greasy tongue coating.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

This formula is commonly used to treat dampness-heat in the lower energizer. Due to the steaming and stagnation of dampness-heat, which infiltrates the Jingmai, the flow of qi and blood is obstructed, resulting in wilting impediment, weakness, or redness, swelling, heat, and pain in the feet and knees; dampness-heat pouring down may manifest as leukorrhea or eczema in the lower body. The formula uses Phelloendron Bark to clear heat with its bitter and cold properties; Atractylodes Rhizome to dry dampness with its bitter and warm nature. The combination of these two herbs has the effect of clearing heat.

bubble_chart Modern Application

Modern medicine believes that this formula has anti-pathogenic microbial, anti-inflammatory, anti-wind-dampness properties, enhances smooth muscle movement function, strengthens the stomach, and dispels wind. It is mainly used for wind-dampness arthritis, multiple neuritis, acute myelitis, progressive muscular atrophy, myasthenia gravis, periodic paralysis, muscular dystrophy, lower limb erysipelas, scrotal eczema, vaginitis, and cervicitis.