The Chinese herbs that can dispel dampness in ambush are patchouli, calamus, cornhusk and so on.
1. Patchouli has the efficacy of aromatizing dampness, harmonizing the stomach and stopping vomiting, and dispelling summer heat and relieving epidemics. The main treatment of dampness obstruction of the middle jiao (dampness impedes the function of the spleen and stomach) of the epigastric (stomach and abdomen) plagued, loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, external heat and dampness of the cold and heat of the headache, dampness and warmth (feeling dampness and heat caused by the temperature) the first fever and body sleepy, chest nausea, ringworm, and so on.
2. Calamus has the effect of opening the orifices and waking up the mind, transforming dampness and stomach, and tranquilizing the mind. The main treatment of phlegm clearing the orifices, delirium; damp obstruction of the middle Jiao, epigastric plumpness (stomach fullness discomfort), distension and pain; silent dysentery; forgetfulness, insomnia, tinnitus, deafness, and so on.
3. Cornhusk has the efficacy of inducing water retention and eliminating swelling, and inducing dampness and jaundice (removing dampness and eliminating jaundice). It is mainly used for treating edema and jaundice.
Chinese medicines need to be used under the guidance of a TCM doctor’s diagnosis, do not use medicines privately, so as not to cause damage to the organism.