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Five-Peel Powder

Pin Yin: Wu Pi San

Category: Drain Dampness, Promote Urination
Additional Categories: Promote movement of Qi

Actions:
   Resolves Spleen Dampness, reduces edema, regulates Qi of Middle Burner, and mildly Fortifies Spleen;
  ---used for Spleen Dampness with underlying weakness of Spleen Qi, with generalized edema, sensation of heaviness and abdominal fullness, labored breathing, urinary difficulty with tongue coat white-greasy.
   (See Spleen Damp; Spleen Qi Vacuity .)

Medicinals

Dosages (Qian)

Mori Albae Radicis, Cx [sang bai pi]

Zingiberis Recens, Rz [sheng jiang]

Poria, Sclerotium [fu ling]

Citri Reticulatae, Pc [chen pi]

Arecae, Pc [da fu pi]

Associated Modern Diseases: edema during pregnancy, protein-Vacuity edema, ascites from cirrhosis, congestive heart failure, urticaria, menopausal edema.
Formulas with related functions: Stephania and Astragalus Decoction [Fang Ji Huang Qi Tang].

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