---
title: "Shi Wei"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/595/shi-wei"
---

 ![shi wei, pyrrosiae folium.jpg](/u/shi-wei-pyrrosiae-folium-vqYMKu.jpg) 

# Shi Wei

### Pyrrosiae Folium

_bitter, sweet, slightly cold_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Drain Dampness**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Burning urination
- Hematemesis
- Hematuria
- Menometrorrhagia
- Cough
- Wheeze

Shi Wei is bitter, sweet, and slightly cold. It enters the lung and
bladder systems to treat urinary disorders from damp heat
patterns. Its relationship to the lungs can be used to treat cough
with phlegm from damp heat.

**Channels:** lung, bladder

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Biliary congestion
- Bronchitis
- Kidney stones
- Hematemesis
- Urinary tract infection

**Formulas:**
- Shi Wei San

**Contraindications:** there are no contraindications
documented for Shi Wei

**Zoo Image:** a pig is being pulled into a slaughterhouse with blood on the door
by a butcher pulling phlegm from the pig while its friend is helping by pulling
its feet but hot stony urine comes out

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