Shi Wei

Other Names : Folium Pyrrosiae, Pyrrosia lingua (Thunb.) Farw., Pyrrosia sheareri (Bak.) Ching (da shi wei), Pyrrosia petiolosa (Christ) Ching, (xiao shi wei)

Special Precautions of Shi Wei

• Use cautions in absence of damp-heat
• Might create anxiety, feeling of hunger, enlarged volume of urine and dizziness. Symptoms subside after stopping using the herb.

Benefits and uses of Shi Wei are

• properties : bitter, sweet, slightly cold
• Channels : bladder and lung
• Uses :
  • clears damp-heat and unblocks painful urinary dysfunction, gonorrhea, cough and for expelling phlegm
  • chronic bronchitis
  • asthma
  • acute inflammation of glomerulus of the kidneys
  • ureter stones
  • chyluria
  • anemia caused by benzene toxicity.