a) Syndromes of obstruction of the spleen and stomach by dampness:
This herb is often used in combination with official magnolia bark, dried tangerine peel, etc., e.g., Ping Wei San.
b) Damp-heat or damp-warm syndromes:
It is used together with heat-clearing herbs in order to resolve dampness and clear away heat.
c) Fluid retention syndrome or edema due to excessive dampness:
This herb can also be used for these ailments.
2. To treat arthralgia-syndromes due to pathogenic wind and dampness:
a) Arthralgia-syndromes due to excessive dampness:
This herb is often used together with angelica root (Radix Angelicae Pubescentis), largeleaf gentian root (Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae), etc.
b) Arthralgia due to damp-heat:
This herb is used together with gypsum, windweed rhizome (Rhizoma Anemarrhenae), etc., e.g., Baihu Jia Cangshu Tang, and also often used with corktree bark (Cortex Phellodendri), i.e., Er Chao San.
c) Other wind-damp syndromes:
This herb can even be used for flaccidity, lacking normal or youthful firmness in muscle, due to damp-heat, leukorrhea due to retention of turbid dampness in the lower part of the body, exudative boils, eczema, etc.
3. To treat exterior-syndromes due to affection by exogenous wind-cold with dampness:
It is mostly used together with dahurian angelica (Radix Angelicae Dahuricae), wild ginger (Herba Asari), etc., e.g., Shen Shu San in the book ‘An Enlargement on the Recipes of the Bureau.’
4. To treat night blindness and blurred vision with roughness in the eyes:
It can be used alone or steamed and boiled together with goat liver and pig liver for oral administration.
