Wolly Yam Decoction for Clearing Turbid Urine bi xie fen qing yin
[SOURCE] :Danxi,s Experiential Therapies
[INGREDIENTS]: Bitter cardamon 9g, Wolly yam 9g, Crassleaved sweetflag rhizome 9g , Lindera root 9g
[DIRECTIONS]: Decoct all the herbs with a little salt in water for oral administration.
[EFFECT]:Warming the kidney, excereting dampness and resolving the turbidity.
[INDICATIONS]: Deficiency-cold of the lower-jiaodue to downward flow of damp-turbidity marked by cloudy urine, frequent urination, or urine just like chyme, coagulation of urine like cream, whitish tongue coating and deep pulse.
[ANALYSIS OF FORMULA]: It is a common formula for treatment of cloudy urine and chyloid stranguria due to deficiency-cold of the lower-jiao and downward flow of damp-turbidity. Wolly yam in the formula is good at excreting dampness and separating clear and the turbid, acting as a principal herb. Functioning as assistant herbs, bitter cardamon warms the kidney and concentrates urine, lindera root warms the kidney and activates qi. Grassleaved sweetflag rhizome as an adjuvant herb resolves the turbid to treat stranguria. Salt being salty flavor guides the potency of all herbs to act on the kidney, playing a role of dispatcher herb.
In clinical practice this formula can be used to treat chyluria and chronic prostatitis manifested as syndrome of cold-dampness due to deficiency of the kidney.
But it is contraindicated in cloudy urine and chyloid stranguria due to overabundance of damp-heat in the urinary bladder.