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Herbal Medicine for Inducing Diuresis and Removing Dampness- Bei Xie (Mian)

                                             Bei Xie (Mian)
                                  
     
                                           Yam Rhizome
                                       Rhizome Dioscoreae

This herb is the dried rhizome of the perennial herbaceous trailing plant Dioscorea hypoglauca Palib or D. seplemloba Thunb
(Mian Bei Xie) of family Diosoreaceae, mainly produced in Zhe Jiang, Hu Bei, Si Chuan and other provinces of China. The
rhizome is dug out in spring or autumn, cleared of fibrous rootlet, cleaned, sliced, dried in the sun and used raw.
Properties: As bitterness inflavour and neutral in nature. It mainly acts on the liver, stomach and urinary bladder channels.
Being bitter for lowering it does on the lower-jiao, inducing diuresis to clear turbid urine. It is indicated for stranguria with
turbid urine, leukorrhea and arthralgia syndrome due to wind dampness caused by downward flow of pathogenic dampness.
Effects: Removing turbid dampness and expelling wind dampness.
Indications:
1. The herb can be used in combination with Wu Yao (lindera root), Shi Chan Pu (grassleaved sweet flag rhizome) and Yi Zhi
Ren (bitter cardamon) for inducing diuresis and removing turbid urine, such as Bi Xie Fen Qing Yin, to treat milky and turbid
or oily urine; and with Shan Yao (Chinese yam rhizome), Cang Zhu (atractylodes rhizome), Qian Shi (gordon euryale seed),
and other herbs for strengthening the spleen, removing dampness and relieving leukorrhea, to treat downward flow of
pathogenic dampness and leukorrhea.
2. To treat wind dampness arthralgia belonging to turbid arthralgia due to excessive dampness, the herb can be used in
combination with Cang Zhu (atractylodes rhizome), Yi Yi ren (coix seed, achyranthes) and other herbs for eliminating
dampness, treating arthralgia and pain.
Dosage and Administration: 10~15 g .
Modern Researches: Decoction of the herb has anti-bacterial effect.