Dăo Chì Săn

Question 1

Actions

Answer 1

Clears the Heart and promotes urination

Question 2

Indications

Answer 2

Irritability with a sensation of heat in the chest
thirst with desire to drink cold beverages
red face
possibly sores around the mouth

dark, scanty, rough and painful urination
clearly visible blood in the urine

T: red
P: rapid

Question 3

Herbs

Answer 3

sheng dì huáng
mù tōng
dàn zhú yè
gān căo shāo

Question 4

Diagnostic Pattern

Answer 4

Heart fire transferring to the Small Intestine.

Question 5

mù tōng

Answer 5

bitter, cold
clears heat from Heart channel above, clears heat and promotes urination within Small Intestine channel below

Question 6

sheng dì huáng

Answer 6

enters the Heart to cool the blood
enters the Kidneys to nourish the yin and generates fluids (strengthening Kidney water), which controls fire in the Heart

+ mù tōng: promotes urination without damaging the yin and tonifies the fluids without retaining pathogenic qi

Question 7

dàn zhú yè

Answer 7

alleviate irritability by clearing heat from the Heart

Question 8

gān căo shāo

Answer 8

painful urinary dribbling, resolving toxicity, harmonizing other herbs
tips: focus action of herb on urinary passageways

Question 9

Cautions and Contraindications

Answer 9

Caution with Spleen and Stomach deficiency.