Aidus & E-Fong Herbal Solution
Herbal Medicine for Inducing Diuresis and Removing Dampness-  Jin Qian Cao (Guang)

                                                   Jin  Qian Cao
                                                       
                                               Lysimachia Herba Lysimachiae

This herb, the whole plant of the perennial herbaceous plant Lysimachia christinac Hance of family Primtilaceae and is known
as Major Lysimachia. It is produced in the south of the Yangtze River in China, mainly in Si Chuan and Guang Dong Province
of China. The herb is collected in summer and autumn,cleared of impurities ,dried in the sun, cut into pieces and used raw or
fresh.
Properties: The herb is sweet and salty in flavour, and slightly cold in nature. It acts on the liver, gallbladder, kidney and
urinary bladder channels. Being sweet and tasteless for inducing diuresis and excreting dampness, salty for softening hard
masses, and slightly cold for clearing heat, the herb can eliminate dampness heat, treat stranguria and jaundice. It is particularly
good at softening hard masses and removing urinary calculus. Therefore, the herb is often used to treat stranguria due to heat,
stranguria caused by urinary stone, jaundice due to damp- heat, and calculus of the liver and gallbladder.
Effects: Inducing diuresis to treat stranguria, urinary calculus and jaundice. Indications:
1. To treat stranguria due to heat, the herb can be used in combination with Dan Zhu Ye (bamboo leaf), Che Qian Zi (plantain
seed), Tong Cao (ricepaper pith) and other herb for inducing diuresis and treating stranguria. To treat stranguria from
urolithiasis or urinary stone, the herb can be used alone with a large dose of its decoction, or in combination with Hai Jin Sha
(climbing fern spore), Ji Nei Jin (chicken's gizzard-skin) and other herbs for softening hard masses, removing urinary
calculus, inducing diuresis, and treating stranguria, such as Er Jin Paishi Tang.
2. The herb can be used in combination with Yin Chen (oriental wormwood), Yu Jin (curcuma root), Zhi Zi (capejasmine fruit)
and other herbs for clearing heat, dampness and jaundice, to treat dampness heat in the liver and gallbladder marked by
jaundice; and with Yu Jin (curcuma root), Chai Hu (bupleurum root), Zhi Shi (immature bitter orange), Yin Chen (oriental
wormwood) and other herbs for normalizing functions of the gallbladder and removing urinary calculus, to treat calculus of
the liver and gallbladder.
In addition, with its effects of clearing heat and toxic substances, the herb can be orally taken and externally applied to treat
sore, carbuncle, suppurative infections and poisonous snake bite.
Dosage and Administration: 30~60g, Doubled if it is used fresh.
Moder Researches: Da Jin Qian Cao (Major lysimachia) and Guang Jin Qian Cao (snowbell leaf tickclover) have the
effect of facilitating bile excretion, and can bacililate muddy and sandy calculus to remove out of the bile duct. In addition, they
have the effect of inducing diuresis, excreting sodium and inhibting Staphyloccoccus aureus, typhoid bacillus bacillus, bacillus
dysenteriae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In modern times, they are often clinically used to treat calculus of the liver and
gallbladder, inflammation of the liver and bile ducts, calculus of the urinary tract and other diseases