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Treats conditions such as difficult urination, abdominal distension and edema caused by dampness stagnation, and patterns where the body cannot tolerate tonification.
Fuling (Poria), Zexie (Alisma Rhizome), Zhuling (Polyporus) (2-3 qian each), Yiren (Coix Seed) (2 qian), Zhike (Aurantium Fructus Immaturus), Houpo (Magnolia Bark) (1 qian each). If it is Yin deficiency causing water fluids to fail to reach their destination, add Shengdi Huang (Rehmannia Root).

Treats white turbidity due to Yang deficiency, frequent urination, urine turbid like oil, known as Gao Lin (Gum Strangury). (This occurs because Kidney Qi is deficient and fails to control and secure, while heat in the urinary tract causes obstruction, leading to a failure to distinguish between clear and turbid fluids. It may also result from residual essence penetrating into the bladder, or from phlegm accumulation penetrating in after taking hot medicines or foods.)
Chuan Bi Xie (Dioscorea Hypoglauca Rhizome), Shichangpu (Acori Tatarinowii Rhizoma), Wuyao (Lindera Root), Yizhi Ren (Alpinia Oxyphylla Fruit) (equal parts), Gancao Shao (Licorice Tip) (half dose), taken with salt. Another formula adds Fuling (Poria).
Chuan Bi Xie (Dioscorea Hypoglauca Rhizome) can resolve damp-heat in the Yangming and Jueyin meridians, removing turbidity and clarifying clarity. (Shi Guoxin said: If one wishes to stimulate Yang, first nourish the sinews; if one wishes for clear urination, first separate clear from turbid.)

Treats Qi Lin (Qi Strangury), Xue Lin (Blood Strangury), Gao Lin (Gum Strangury), Sha Lin (Gravel Strangury). (Stagnation of Heart and Kidney Qi causes clear and turbid fluids to interfere with each other. Heat accumulating in the Bladder causes painful and difficult urination, termed Lin syndrome. Residual dripping after urination. Xue Lin involves hematuria with pain. Gao Lin involves urine discharging like gum. Sha Lin involves concretion of essence into stones. Lao Lin (Fatigue Strangury) occurs upon exertion. Chills followed by urination. Generally, these belong to heat patterns; excessive heat generates dampness, causing fluid turbidity and resulting in Lin syndrome. Cases where cold qi stagnates in the Bladder causing Lin constitute only one or two percent.)
Huashi (Talcum) (2 qian), Hupo (Amber), Mutong (Akebia Stem), Qumai (Polygonum Aviculare Herb), Muxiang (Aucklandia Root), Danggui (Angelica Sinensis Root), Yujin (Curcuma Longa Rhizome) (stir-fried 1 qian), ground into powder and taken.
Huashi (Talcum) is slippery and removes adhesion, benefiting orifices and promoting water movement. Qumai (Polygonum Aviculare Herb) is bitter and descends, benefiting urination and treating strangury. Hupo (Amber) descends Lung Qi and connects to the Bladder. Mutong (Akebia Stem) drains... [text missing] ...meridian... [text missing] ...Xiang... [text missing] ...Qing... [text missing] ...nourish... [text missing]

(Zhang Zhongjing) Treats Taiyang disease transmitting to Yangming disease, characterized by sweating only on the head, abdominal fullness, thirst, difficulty in urination and defecation, jaundice due to damp-heat, and a deep, solid pulse.
It says: In Yangming disease, fever and sweating indicate that heat is venting outward, so jaundice will not develop. If there is sweating only on the head, no sweating on the body, and difficult urination, along with thirst prompting intake of fluids, this indicates stagnant heat in the interior, inevitably leading to jaundice. Yellow is the color of the Spleen and Stomach. With severe heat, the body appears orange-yellow, and sweat resembles cypress juice. The head is the meeting point of all Yang meridians; heat steaming upward causes sweating only on the head and none on the body. If heat vents outward, it does not stagnate internally; if it渗 (seeps) downward, it does not accumulate inside. Now, since urination is difficult and sweating is absent, heat stagnates and causes yellowing. Internal excess heat causes thirst. Severe heat depletes internal body fluids, causing difficult urination. Any condition with stagnant heat in the interior, or water-phlegm binding in the chest, presents with head sweating. This results from the transmission of Cold Damage, thus differing from miscellaneous diseases. Dampness in the meridians causes afternoon fever and nasal congestion... [text missing] ...then body pain. In the Zang-Fu organs, it causes loose stools, paradoxical difficulty in urination, and abdominal distension. When dampness and heat struggle, jaundice develops. If heat predominates, the color is bright; if dampness predominates, the color is dull and stools are loose. Furthermore, Jaundice disease resembles Dampness disease, but Dampness is at the exterior with whole-body pain, whereas Jaundice is in the interior... [text missing]
Yin Chen Hao (Artemisiae Scopariae Herba) (6 liang), Da Huang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma) (2 liang), Zhi Zi (Gardeniae Fructus) (14 pieces, stir-fried).
Yin Chen Hao (Artemisiae Scopariae Herba) induces sweating and promotes diuresis to drain damp-heat from the Taiyin Spleen and Yangming Stomach, making it the principal herb for treating jaundice. Zhi Zi (Gardeniae Fructus) serves as the Deputy minister, and Da Huang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma) as the Assistant, draining heat via the anterior and posterior outlets respectively, then... [text missing]
Replacing Da Huang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma) with Lian Xin (Nelumbinis Plumula) creates Yin Chen San Wu Tang (Three-Ingredient Decoction of Artemisia for Jaundice), with identical indications. Adding Houpo (Magnolia Bark), Zhishi (Bitter Orange Fruit), Huang Qin (Scutellaria Root), Gancao (Licorice Root), decocted with Shengjiang (Fresh Ginger) and Dengcao (Juncus Effusus), creates Yin Chen Jiang Jun Tang (Artemisia General Decoction)... [text missing] ...as Yin... [text missing] ...or... [text missing] ...wheezing... [text missing] ...middle... [text missing]