Source "Treatise on Febrile Diseases".
Different names of Zhuling Powder (Volume 9 of Taiping Shenghuifang) and Wuling Decoction (Volume 5 of Xuanming Lun Fang).
Polyporus umbellatus10g (peeled), Alisma orientalis15g, Atractylodis Rhizoma10g, Poria cocos10g, and Ramulus Cinnamomi 7g (peeled).
There are five flavors in usage, and it is smashed into powder. Drink 3 grams of kimono in white and take it three times a day. Drink more warm water, and sweat will heal you.
Function: diuresis and dampness, warming yang and transforming qi.
Indications are exterior syndrome, water retention and dampness, headache and fever, polydipsia and thirst, or vomiting when water enters, edema, diarrhea and urination when water retention and dampness stops, cholera, headache, fever, body pain, thirst for water, phlegm retention, palpitation under the umbilicus, salivation, dizziness or shortness of breath and cough. It is now used for nephritis, cardiac edema, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, urinary retention, acute enteritis and other patients with water-dampness stagnation.
In the prescription, Polyporus umbellatus, Poria cocos and Alisma orientalis are slightly permeable to promote diuresis, Atractylodes macrocephala is spleen-strengthening and dampness-drying, and Guizhi is exterior-relieving and qi-transforming. When the five drugs are matched, the water will be gasified, and the spleen will be relieved, so that the syndromes caused by water storage and phlegm drinking will be eliminated by themselves.
Experimental study on diuretic effect "Chinese Pharmaceutical Association 1962 Abstracts of Academic Arguments"1963: 327 ~ 328, Wuling Powder (Polyporus18g, Alisma orientalis 30g, Poria18g, Ramulus Cinnamomi/KLOC-0. In addition, the above drugs were also made into tinctures of 1: 1 according to the above method, and the diuretic effect of Wuling powder and its single drugs on rats was observed. The results showed that the micturition rate of Wuling powder and its components at the first 1 hour after administration was significantly enhanced compared with that before administration, among which Erling and Guizhi had the strongest effects. There was no significant difference in the urination rate of the control group after taking the medicine twice. At the second hour, the urination rate of each group increased slightly, and at the third hour, there was no obvious diuretic effect.
Remind you: Wuling Powder, a famous Chinese herbal medicine, comes from the Internet. Please follow the doctor's advice before using it.