利濕藥

See also: 利湿药

Chinese

		advantage; benefit; profit advantage; benefit; profit; sharp	moist; wet	medicine; drug; cure
trad. (利濕藥/利溼藥)		利	濕/溼	藥
simp. (利湿药)		利	湿	药

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lìshīyào

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ ㄕ ㄧㄠˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lìshīyào
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ ㄕ ㄧㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lìshihyào
    • Wade–Giles: li⁴-shih¹-yao⁴
    • Yale: lì-shr̄-yàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lihshyyaw
    • Palladius: лишияо (lišijao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹ ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ jɑʊ̯⁵¹/

Noun

利濕藥

1. "Dampness-eliminating" materia medica in traditional Chinese medicine. It refers to herbs and other medicinal substances that are used to eliminate "dampness" in the body. Symptoms of "dampness" include water-retention in the limbs.

Synonyms

• 利水滲濕藥／利水渗湿药

Hyponyms

hyponyms

• 關木通／关木通 (guānmùtōng, “stem of the Manchurian aristolochia, Aristolochia manshuriensis”)
• 薏苡仁 (yìyǐrén, “seed of the Coix lacryma-jobi”)

利濕退黃

• 茵陳蒿／茵陈蒿 (yīnchénhāo, “Artemisia scoparia plant”)
• 金錢草／金钱草 (jīnqiáncǎo, “Lysimachia plant”)

利水消腫

• 澤瀉／泽泻 (zéxiè, “rhizome of Alismatis”)
• 澤漆／泽漆
• 茯苓 (fúlíng, “poria”)
• 豬苓／猪苓 (zhūlíng, “Polyporus umbellatus”)
• 葫蘆／葫芦 (húlu)
• 冬瓜皮

利尿通淋

• 萆薢 (bìxiè, “rhizome of Dioscorea septemloba”)
• 石葦／石苇 (shíwěi, “leaf of Pyrrosia”)
• 海金沙 (hǎijīnshā, “spores of Lygodium japonicum”)
• 通草 (tōngcǎo, “pith or inner tissue of Tetrapanax”)
• 木通 (mùtōng, “stem of the Akebia”)
• 車前子／车前子 (chēqiánzǐ, “seed of the Plantago”)
• 滑石 (huáshí, “talcum”)
• 燈心草／灯心草 (dēngxīncǎo)
• 瞿麥／瞿麦
• 扁蓄
• 地膚子／地肤子
• 冬葵子

See also

• 藥材／药材 (yàocái, “medicinal materials in traditional Chinese medicine”)

References

• 利濕藥／利湿药 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh
• Ou, Ming with Li Yanwen (1994) The Traditional Chinese Drug and Its Usage, Hai Feng Publishing Co., →ISBN
• W.-F. Fong, C. Wang, G.-Y. Zhu, C.-H. Leung, M.-S. Yang, H.-Y. Cheung, "Reversal of multidrug resistance in cancer cells by Rhizoma alismatis extract", Phytomedicine, Volume 14, Issues 2-3, 19 February 2007, Pages 160-165.
• Yao-Ting Huang, Dong-Ming Huang, Shih-Chieh Chueh, Che-Ming Teng, Jih-Hwa Guh, "Alisol B acetate, a triterpene from alismatis rhizoma, induces Bax nuclear translocation and apoptosis in human hormone-resistant prostate cancer PC-3 cells", Cancer Letters, Volume 231, Issue 2, 18 January 2006, Pages 270-278.