Aidus & E-Fong Herbal Solution
Herbal Medicine for Inducing Diuresis and Removing Dampness- Hai Jin Sha

                                                  Hai Jin Sha
                                                                                
                                              Climbing Fern Spore
                                                 Sρora Lygodii

This herb is the mature spore of the perennial climbing pteridophyte Lygodium japonicum (Thunb.) Sw. of family
Logodiaceae, mainly produced in Guan dong, Zhe Jiang, and other provinces of China. Its vine leaves are harvested in autumn
when spores have not been shredded, dried in the sun, rubbed with hands or threshed to shed spores, which are cleared of
vine leaves and used raw.
Properties: The herb is sweet in flavour, and cold in nature. It acts on the urinary bladder and small intestine channels. Being
sweet and tasteless for inducing diuresis and excreting dampness, and cold for clearing heat, the herb can eliminate dampness
heat to treat stranguria. Particularly in benefit of relieving stranguria, it is often used to treat severely difficult and painful
stranguria due to heat or caused by the passage of urinary stone.
Effects: Inducing diuresis to treat stranguria.
Indications:
The herb can be used in combination with bamboo leaf, capejasmine fruit, field thistle, raw rehmannia root and other herbs for
inducing diuresis, treating stranguria, removing heat from blood and stopping bleeding, to treat stranguria due to heat and
stranguria with blood; and with talc, plantain seed, lysimachia and other herbs for inducing diuresis and removing urinary
calculus, to treat unbearably difficult and painful stranguria from urolithiasis and stranguria caused by
the passage of urinary stone.
Dosage and Administration: 6~12g. Wrapped in gauze and decocted in water
Modern Researches: The decoction of the herb has an inhibiting effect on Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic streptococcus,
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, typhoid bacillus and other pathogenic bacteria.