Shi Wei- Damp: Promote Urination and Relieve 
      PUD UB, LU (6-15g) | 
	 
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      Shi Wei - The Excess Way (Smoking, Drinking, Fighting) 
      Excess smoking causes phlegm and coughing while 
      Fighting causes hot blooded bleeding. Its time 
      we all stopped the excess way and switched to De-Caf. 
      coffee. 
       
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              English Name: pyrrosia, shearer's pyrrosia leaf, Jap. 
              felt fern 
               
		 
              Pharmacuetical Name: Folium Pyrrosiae 
            
		 Properties: bitter, sweet, cool
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              Explanation of Key Words in this story... | 
         
         
          | phlegm and coughing | 
          expels phlegm; stops cough | 
         
         
          | bleeding... hot blooded | 
          stops bleeding; cools blood | 
         
         
          | De-Caf. coffee | 
          promotes urination; clear damp heat from the 
            bladder  | 
         
       
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      Shi Wei
      Actions and Indications 
        - Promotes Urination, clear Damp Heat from bladder 
          (promotes diuresis, edema, heat / stony / bloody lin, Damp heat PUD, 
          especially for bloody lin)
 
        - Expels phlegm; Stops cough (cough w/ profuse sticky 
          yellow phlegm)
 
        - Cools blood; Stops bleeding (uterine bleeding; hematemesis, 
          epistaxis, bleeding from trauma)
 
        
      
        Special Notes: 
        - Effective to treat cancer patients who have low white blood cell counts 
          after receiving chemo or radiation.
 
        - 5-10g dosage is normal, up to 30g for excess cases.
 
       
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