Wulin San

太平惠民和劑局方

Red Fu Ling 6 liang; Dang Gui (remove reed) and Gan Cao (used raw) 5 liang each; Chi Shao Yao (remove reed, chopped) and Shan Zhi Ren (Gardenia seed) 20 liang each. Grind the above into a fine powder. Take 2 qian per dose with 1 cup of water, decoct to eight fen, and take on an empty stomach before meals.

Grind into raw herb powder in proportion; take 4–6 g per dose, swallowed with warm boiled water before meals. Or change to a decoction: use six bowls of water and boil down to two bowls; take one bowl warm before each meal.

湯劑

Clear heat and cool Blood, promote urination and free strangury.

Damp-heat accumulates and binds in the Bladder. Frequent urination, dripping, painful and rough urination, full and painful umbilical and abdominal region, occurring and remitting, triggered by fatigue, or urine like bean juice, or passing sand and stones in urine, or cold strangury with greasy urine, or heat strangury with bloody urine.

Heat strangury: add Huang Lian (Coptis): 6. -- Stone strangury: add Hai Jin Sha (Lygodium spores): 10, Jin Qian Cao (Lysimachia): 30, Hua Shi Cao (fossil grass): 10, Shi Wei (Pyrrosia): 10. -- Urinary stoppage: add Mu Tong (Akebia): 10, Fang Ji (Stephania): 10. -- Heat binding in the Bladder: combine with Dao Chi San. -- Water passage obstruction: combine with Wu Ling San.

If dribbling strangury has lasted a long time and belongs to deficiency-cold patterns, this formula must not be used, lest it damage healthy Qi.