Japanese Climbing Fern Spore; Spore of Japanese Climbing Fern

Hai Jin Sha

海金沙

Lygodii Spora; Spora Lygodii

Japanese Climbing Fern Spore; Spore of Japanese Climbing Fern

Sweet; Salty; Cold

Bladder; Small Intestine

Aerial parts

Diuretic Dampness Excreting Drugs

利水渗湿药

To promote diuresis and treat stranguria

Heat strangury, stone strangury, blood strangury, inhibited urination [=dysuria], edema, white turbidity, vaginal discharge, hepatitis, diarrhea, dysentery, common cold with fever, cough and asthma, swelling pain in throat, mouth sore, red eyes with gall, mumps, mammary welling abscess, erysipelas, zoster, burns and scalds, itchy skin, wound swelling from knocks and falls, wind-damp impediment pain, bleeding due to external injury.

Its 50% decoction inhibits the growth of staphylococcus aureus, bacillus typhoid, pseudomonas aeruginosa and bacillus coli.

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