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Women suffering from strangury (Lin syndrome) are caused by Kidney deficiency and Heat in the Bladder. The Bladder and Kidney are exteriorly-interiorly related, both governing water metabolism. Water flowing through the bladder becomes urine excreted from the body.

Zang-Fu Formulas

Mutong San: Treats five types of strangury in women.
Ingredients: Mutong (Caulis Akebiae), Yubai Pi (Cortex Ulmi), Qumai (Herba Dianthi), Dama Ren (Semen Cannabis), Huashi (Talcum) (each 1 liang); Beichi (Concha Arcae), Kuizi (Semen Malvae), Baimaogen (Rhizoma Imperatae) (each 2 liang); Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae) (0.5 liang).

Kuigen San: Treats painful and difficult urination due to five types of strangury in women.
Ingredients: Kuizi (Semen Malvae) (1 liang, sliced), Cheqianzi (Semen Plantaginis), Luangfa Hui (Ash of Human Hair) (0.5 liang), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae) (0.5 liang, honey-fried until slightly red and sliced), Chuan Dahuang (Radix et Rhizoma Rhei) (1 liang, sliced and lightly stir-fried).
Usage: Take 5 qian per dose, decoct with water. (Original text missing specific water volume and boiling time description)

Kuizi San: Treats five types of strangury in women. Symptoms include difficult urination, abdominal pain, and distension.
Ingredients: Shiwei (Folium Pyrosiae), Wangbuliuxing (Herba Siegesbeckiae), Huashi (Talcum), Danggui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis) (sliced and lightly stir-fried), Qumai (Herba Dianthi), Chishao Yao (Radix Paeoniae Rubra), Hupo (Electrum), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae) (honey-fried until slightly red and sliced, each 1 liang).

Hupo San: Treats exhaustion strangury (Lao Lin) in women. Symptoms include difficult and painful urination.
Ingredients: Hupo (Electrum), Shiwei (Folium Pyrosiae) (de-haired), Huashi (Talcum), Kuizi (Semen Malvae), Qumai (Herba Dianthi) (each 1 liang); Danggui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis) (sliced and lightly stir-fried), Chishao Yao (Radix Paeoniae Rubra), Muxiang (Radix Aucklandiae) (each 0.5 liang).

Wangbuliuxing San: Treats cold-exhaustion strangury in women. Symptoms include knotting pain in the lower abdomen.
Ingredients: Wangbuliuxing (Herba Siegesbeckiae) (1 liang), Danggui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis) (3 fen, sliced and lightly stir-fried), Luangfa Hui (Ash of Human Hair) (0.5 liang), Kuizi (Semen Malvae) (3 fen), Cheqianzi (Semen Plantaginis) (3 fen), Liyu Chi (Teeth of Carp).
Usage: Mix and take 2 qian. (Original text missing specific vehicle and water volume description)

Chifuling San: Treats Qi-strangury with cold symptoms in women. Symptoms include difficult urination.
Ingredients: Chifuling (Poria Cocos with Red Cortex), Kuigen (Radix Malvae), Guixin (Cinnamomi Cortex), Shiwei (Folium Pyrosiae), Chishao Yao (Radix Paeoniae Rubra), Hupo (Electrum), Mutong (Caulis Akebiae) (sliced, each 1 liang); Qingju Pi (Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride) (3 fen, soaked in water, white pith removed, then dried).
Usage: Take orally. (Original text missing specific decoction method)

Fengfang San: Treats five types of strangury in women. Symptoms include difficult, painful, and obstructed urination.
Ingredients: Lufengfang Hui (Ash of Vespa Nidus), Baimaogen (Rhizoma Imperatae), Kuizi (Semen Malvae), Luangfa Hui (Ash of Human Hair), Cheqianzi (Semen Plantaginis), Huashi (Talcum) (each 1 liang).
Preparation and Usage: Grind the above herbs into a fine powder. Before meals, mix with Dengxin Tang (Juncus Decoction) and take. (Original text missing specific dosage)

Huashi San: Treats heat-strangury in women.
Ingredients: Huashi (Talcum) (1 liang), Cheqianzi (Semen Plantaginis), Qumai (Herba Dianthi) (each 3 fen), Hai Ge (Concha Meretricis), Maogen (Rhizoma Imperatae), Kuizi (Semen Malvae) (each 3 fen).
Preparation and Usage: Grind the above herbs into a fine powder. Add to... (Original text sentence incomplete, likely referring to decoction or mixing method)

Beichi San: Treats strangury caused by constrained Heat in women. Symptoms include radiating pain during urination, occasional hematuria resembling mung bean juice.
Ingredients: Beichi (Concha Arcae), Kuizi (Semen Malvae) (3 fen), Shiyan (Lapis Fossils Corallinus), Huashi (Talcum) (each 3 liang).
Preparation and Usage: Grind the above herbs into a fine powder and sieve. Before meals, mix with Congbai Tang (Scallion White Decoction) and take 2 qian.

Treating blood strangury in women, and painful difficult urination with hematuria.
Ingredients: Luangfa (Human Hair) (1 liang), Niuer Zhong Mao (Hair from Cow's Ear) (0.5 liang).
Preparation and Usage: Burn together into ash, grind finely. Before meals, mix with warm wine and take 0.5 qian.

Jinsha San: Treats strangury.
Ingredients: Haijinshacao (Spora Lygodii) (shade-dried).
Preparation and Usage: Grind into powder. Decoct Sheng Gancao Radix Glycyrrhizae Raw Decoction, mix 2 qian of powder, and take. Severe cases may require no more than three to four doses.

Another Prescription
Use real Hupo (Electrum) ground finely, mixed with Mosxiang (Moschus) in any proportion, taken with plain boiled water.

Treating strangury pain in women.
Ingredients: Baizhu (Radix Atractylodis Macrocephalae) (2 liang, stir-fried until yellow, remove thin parts and stir-fry).
Preparation and Usage: Grind into fine powder. Take 5 qian per dose, swallow with Shiwei Ye Decoction (Pyrosiae Folium Decoction).

Treating various types of strangury in women.
Ingredients: Use Kuzhang Gen (Root of unknown plant, commonly known as Du Niuxi). Wash thoroughly and crush.
Usage: For one he of herb, use five zhong zhan of water, decoct to one zhong zhan, filter dregs. (Original text missing subsequent administration instructions)

Treating difficult and scanty urination.
Ingredients: Use Hupo (Electrum) ground into fine powder.
Usage: Take 3 qian per dose, mix with thickly decocted Congbai Tang (Scallion White Decoction). (From Ruizhutang Fang)

Treating strangury in women.
Ingredients: Collect shells/carapaces and burn to ash.
Usage: Mix with water and take. Alternatively, mix with wine.

Shiwei San: Treats sudden onset of dribbling strangury in women.
Ingredients: Shiwei (Folium Pyrosiae), Huangshen (Radix Codonopsis), Mutong (Caulis Akebiae), Yubai Pi (Cortex Ulmi), Kuizi (Semen Malvae), Qumai Sui (Amentum Dianthi), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae), etc.
Preparation and Usage: Grind equal parts into coarse powder. Take half liang per dose, decoct with 1.5 zhan of water, Jiang... (Original text sentence incomplete)

Shenghua Tang: Treats constipation of small urine with blood.
Ingredients: Puhuang (Pollen Typhae) (1 liang, stir-fried), Mutong (Caulis Akebiae), Huangqin (Radix Scutellariae) (each 2 liang), Qumai (Herba Dianthi), Huashi (Talcum) (0.5 liang), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae) (2.5 qian, stir-fried).
Preparation and Usage: Cut the herbs into pieces. Each dose... (Original text missing specific dosage and decoction method)

Jisu San: Treats blood strangury in women.
Ingredients: Jisu Ye (Folium Elsholtziae), Mutong (Caulis Akebiae) (each 2 liang), Sheng Gan Dihuang (Radix Rehmanniae Preparata), Huashi (Talcum) (each 3 liang), Ciji (Spina Tragiacanthis) (1 liang).
Preparation and Usage: Grind into coarse powder. Take half liang per dose, water... (Original text missing specific decoction method)

Treating blood strangury in women, and painful difficult urination with hematuria.
Ingredients: Sheng Gan Dihuang (Radix Rehmanniae Preparata) (3 liang), Yujin (Radix Curcumae Longae), Puhuang (Pollen Typhae) (each 2 liang).
Preparation and Usage: Grind into fine powder. Take 2 qian per dose, mix with Cheqianzi Ye Decoction (Plantago Leaf Decoction). Take three times daily.

Taojiao San: Treats Qi-strangury and exhaustion-strangury in women.
Ingredients: Taojiao (Gum Persicae), Yubai Pi (Cortex Ulmi) (each 1 liang), Cheqianzi (Semen Plantaginis), Donggua Zi (Semen Benincasae), Liyu Chi (Teeth of Carp), Kuizi (Semen Malvae), Qumai (Herba Dianthi), Mutong (Caulis Akebiae) (each 0.5 liang), Zhiqiao (Fructus Aurantii) ... (Original text missing specific dosage and subsequent content)

Fa Zhi Xiangfuzi: Treats various types of bloody strangury, metrorrhagia in women, and watery diarrhea postpartum.
Ingredients: Da Xiangfuzi (Rhizoma Cyperi Rotundi) (pounded to remove hairy skin).
Preparation and Usage: Soak in urine of a young boy overnight, cut into pieces with a knife. Dip in rice vinegar, dry by baking, grind into powder. Each dose... (Original text missing specific dosage)

Xiangfuzi Wan: Treats strangury and metrorrhagia in women.
Ingredients: Jing Xiangfu (Rhizoma Cyperi Rotundi) (5 qian, soaked in wine, boiled, fried, and baked).
Preparation and Usage: Grind into powder, make pills using yellow millet paste, size of paulownia seeds. Take 50 pills per dose, swallow with rice soup.

Chushizi Wan: Treats spleen injury due to worry and overthinking in women, inability to transform water, resulting in turbid deposits, or discharge of red and white matter, continuous dribbling strangury. Benefits the viscera, nourishes Qi and Blood.
Ingredients: Chuan Niuxi (Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae) (2 liang, soaked in wine and baked dry), Chuan Biexie (Rhizoma Dioscoreae Hypoglaucae), Chushizi (Fructus Cudraniae Tricuspidae) (3 liang, baked), Shanyao (Rhizoma Dioscoreae), Baijiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Preparatum), Chuanxiong (Rhizoma Chuanxiong) (each 1 liang).
Preparation and Usage: ... size. Each ... (Original text sentence incomplete)

Li Qing San: Treats irregular menstruation and turbid dribbling strangury in women. Also treats turbidity in men.
Ingredients: Yizhiren (Fructus Alpiniae Oxyphyllae), Chuan Biexie (Rhizoma Dioscoreae Hypoglaucae), Shichangpu (Rhizoma Acori Tatarinowii), Baifuling (Poria Cocos), Wuyao (Radix Linderae) (each 1 liang), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae) (4 qian).
Preparation and Usage: Cut the herbs into pieces. Take 3 qian per dose, salt one ... (Original text sentence incomplete)

Duan Xia Wan: Treats weakness of Qi and Blood in women, leakage of five colors, continuous dribbling strangury.
Ingredients: Bailonggu (Os Draconis), Ganjiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis), Baifuling (Poria Cocos), Moli (Testudo Carapax et Plastrum), Fulonggan (Argilla Rubra), Huang ... (Raw), Houpo (Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis), Wumei Rou (Endocarpium Pruni Mume), Huangniu Jiao Sai (Cornu Bubali Preparatum) (burnt to ash), Haipiao ... (Original text sentence incomplete)

Treating strangury caused by constrained Qi in women, radiating pain during urination extending to the lower abdomen, occasional hematuria, or discharge resembling mung bean juice or gum drink, severe发作欲死 (attacks causing desire to die), loss of appetite ...
Ingredients: Beichi (Concha Arcae) (4 pieces, burnt to ash), Kuizi (Semen Malvae) (1 sheng), Shigao (Gypsum Fibrosum) (5 liang), Huashi (Talcum) (3 liang, powdered).
Preparation and Usage: Add 7 sheng of water, boil the two main items, obtain 2 ... (Original text sentence incomplete)