Aidus & E-Fong Herbal Solution
Herbal Medicine for Dispelling Dampness
                                      
                                
                                               Chapter 5

       Herbal Medicine  for Dispelling Dampness

The herbs that have an aromatic flavour and the functions of eliminating dampness and invigorating spleen are
called aromatic herbal medicine for dispelling dampness. The principal therapeutic effects of these herbs are to treat the
syndromes of the retention of pathogenic dampness in the spleen.

Most of the herbal medicine of this type are pungent and aromatic in flavour and have the properties of warm
and dryness. They act mainly on the spleen and stomach channels to complex their major functions of dispelling
dampness, invigorating he spleen and Qi circulation and normalizing the functions of stomach and spleen. They are
indicated for the syndromes of the retention of dampness in the middle jiao, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, loose
stool and diarrhea, oppressive chest and greasy tongue coating or stagnation of Qi in the middle-jiao, abdominal
distension, and regurgitation.

These herbs should be used in combination with other drugs in accordance with different syndrome. For syndromes
mainly of cold-dampness, they are used together with the drugs for warming the interior and expelling cold. For those
mainly of dampness heat, they are used with the medicines for eliminating heat and dampness. For those of retention of
dampness and Qi, they are used with the rugs for promoting Qi circulation and relieving abdominal distension. For
asthenia of spleen and stomach, they are used together with the drugs for replenishing Qi and invigorating the spleen.

These herbal medicine should be used with caution for the patients of Yin deficiency because their warm and dryness
properties tend to injure the Yin fluid. Owing to the fragrant odour and the volatile oil content, they should not be
decocted for long time. (Aidus & E-fong Herbal Solution)