CHINAHERB Expel Water Retention

💊 CHINAHERB Expel Water Retention — Promote Urination, Remove Dampness, Support Kidney & Fluid Balance

CHINAHERB Expel Water Retention (Wu Ling San Pian / 五苓散片) is a classical Chinese herbal formula from Zhang Zhongjing’s “Treatise on Febrile Diseases” in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. It is designed to induce urination, remove water and damp retention, and strengthen Yang Qi for proper fluid transport in the body.

🌿 Key Benefits — Kidney, Urinary & Fluid Health

• Promotes urination and removes water retention (edema) caused by Dampness or poor fluid metabolism.

• Supports kidney and bladder function for healthy water transport and excretion.

• Reduces oedema and ascites associated with chronic nephritis, liver cirrhosis, or cardiogenic causes.

• Helps manage urinary retention and inhibited urination.

• Supports treatment of hydrocephalus and acute enteritis where water retention is involved.

• Regulates body water-salt balance and improves fluid distribution.

• Relieves symptoms from water overflow, such as vertigo, shortness of breath, cough, or palpitations.

🧬 Clinical Evidence — Traditional & Modern Applications

• Traditionally, Water Retention Syndromes are caused by improper transport of water by the Bladder, leading to edema, vomiting, watery diarrhea, vertigo, cough, and palpitations.

• Modern studies show Expel Water Retention regulates water-salt balance and enhances diuresis.

• Research indicates it inhibits high expression of ETAR protein and mRNA in kidney tissue, which may reduce proteinuria in patients with ADR nephropathy.

• Clinically used for acute and chronic nephritis, cardiogenic edema, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, urinary retention, hydrocephalus, and other water retention conditions.

⚠️ Cautions

• Use under professional guidance if taking other medications.

• Monitor for dehydration or excessive urination during prolonged use.

• Stop use if symptoms worsen or new symptoms appear.