---
title: "Fu Ping"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/474/fu-ping"
---

 ![fu ping, spirodelae herba.jpg](/u/fu-ping-spirodelae-herba-jA4QFE.jpg) 

# Fu Ping

### Spirodelae Herba

_acrid, cold_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Release the Exterior for Heat Attack**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Body aches
- Rash
- Measles
- Edema
- Urinary difficulty

Fu Ping is acrid to disperse and cold to treat exterior heat attacks.
It enters the lung and bladder systems and is considered a strong
diaphoretic. It is also a diuretic to reduce edema.

**Channels:** lung, bladder

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Edema
- Epilepsy
- Arthritis
- Acne
- Rash
- Hypotension

**Contraindications:** Fu Ping induces sweating and should not
be prescribed to patients that have hyperhidrosis and should
only be prescribed to patients with excess heat patterns

**Zoo Image:** a swollen polar bear with a rash is looking at a sweat hut in a pool
of urine

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