California License Exams, Pacific College Comps
Five-Ingredient Powder with Poria
Promote Urination and Leach Out Dampness
Promote urination, drain dampness, strengthen Spleen, warm yang, promote qi transformation
Shang Han Lun (Eastern Han - approximately 200 AD)
Spleen dysfunction of transformation and transportation, leading to fluid retention in the interior. This can manifest in different ways.
1) Headache, fever, irritability, strong thirst with emesis directly after drinking, dysuria, and a floating pulse.
2) edema, heaviness sensation, diarrhea, dysuria, and possibly sudden turmoil disorder.
3) throbbing sensations just below the umbilicus, vomiting frothy saliva, shortness of breath, vertigo, and coughing.