Hua Shi, 1lb

Talcum cools summerheat, clears hot painful urinary dribbling, applied topically for damp-heat rashes and sores. - Bensky

Excerpted from Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

• Clears heat and facilitates the resolution of dampness: an important substance in treating hot painful urinary dribbling or any condition with dark, painful burning and scanty urine. Also used for damp-heat generated diarrhea. Because it expels damp-heat throught the urine, it is used adjunctively for heat in the qi level with dampness manifested in unremitting fevers, a heavy feeling in the body, thirst, and a yellow tongue coating.*
• Clears summerheat and facilitates the resolution of dampness: for summerheat disorder with fever, urinary difficulty, irritability, and thirst.*
• Absorbs dampness: applied topically for damp skin lesions including eczema, damp sores, and prickly heat.*