INDIVIDUAL HERBS

Pharmaceutical Latin:	Folium Pyrrosiae
Common English:	Pyrrosia Leaf Felt Fern Leaf

Taste	Temperature	Entering Meridians	Dosage
Bitter Sweet	Slightly Cold (Cool) (Neutral)	Bladder Lung	6-16g Severe cases: up to 30g Tincture: 2-4ml

Actions	Indications/Syndromes
Clears Damp-Heat, unblocks painful urinary dysfunction and clears stones	Damp-Heat painful urinary dysfunction, Stone Lin and Blood Lin
Clears Heat and stops bleeding (Cools the Blood)	Blood Heat bleeding (hematemesis, uterine bleeding, Blood Lin)
Clears the Lungs, expels Phlegm and stops coughing	Lung Heat coughs and wheezing

CONTRAINDICATIONS

INCOMPATIBILITIES

HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

Hb. Dianthi Qu Mai Talcum Hua Shi	Hb. Dianthi Qu Mai Talcum Hua Shi Fr. Malvae Dong Kui Zi	Hb. Desmodii Styracifolii Guang Jin Qian Cao Fr. Malvae Dong Kui Zi or Hb. Lysimachiae Jin Qian Cao Hb. Lygodii Hai Jin Sha Talcum Hua Shi
Damp-Heat in the Lower Jiao with short, stabbing, painful urination.	Hematuria.	Stone Lin.
Fresh Pollen Typhae Pu Huang Fr. Gardeniae Zhi Zi	Sm. Plantaginis Che Qian Zi Rz. Alismatis Ze Xie (Poria) (Fu Ling)	Rx. Sanguisorbae Di Yu
Hematuria with stabbing pain.	Edema.	Hemoptysis due to Lung Heat.
Sm. Arecae Bing Lang	Fr. Jujube Da Zao	Sm. Plantaginis Che Qian Zi Caul. Akebiae Mu Tong
As a powder with ginger tea for coughing and wheezing due to Phlegm-Heat in the Lungs.	Leukopenia.	Heat Lin.
Rz. Imperatae Bai Mao Gen Fr. Gardeniae Zhi Zi Pollen Typhae Pu Huang	Rz. Anemarrhenae Zhi Mu
Blood Lin.	Cough with Yin Deficiency.

This herb has a very strong stone removing action.
It can be used alone to stop bleeding.
This herb has shown to be effective in treating cancer patients who have low white blood cell counts after receiving chemotherapy or radiation. It helps increase the white blood cell count.
Both Shi Wei and Talcum Hua Shi are cold and unblock painful urinary dysfunction. Hua Shi is slippery and facilitates Dampness and is best used for for Damp-Heat Lin and Stone Lin. It also cools Summerheat and alleviates thirst. Shi Wei cools the Blood and stops bleeding and is best for Blood Lin. It also cools the Lungs, stops cough.
Both Shi Wei and Spora Lygodii Hai Jin Sha clear Damp-Heat, unblock painful urinary dysfunction and are used to treat Hot painful urinary dysfunction (Lin Syndrome) or hematuria. Shi Wei is especially good for bloody painful urinary dysfunction and Damp-Heat painful urinary dysfunction. it also treats cough and wheezing by clearing Lung Heat and irregular uterine bleeding by cooling Blood and stopping bleeding in the Lower Jiao. Hai Jin Sha is particularly effective at treating stony painful urinary dysfunction.