There are many Chinese herbal formulas for dispelling dampness, including San Ren Tang and Jiu Wei Qiang Wu Tang.
1. San Ren Tang is composed of almonds, Bai Tong Cao, bamboo leaves, slippery stone, cardamom kernel, half-summer, Job’s tears grains, thick park, which has the effect of clearing dampness-heat and promoting the flow of qi.
San Ren Tang is mainly used in treating summer temperature with dampness or dampness-heat (warm disease caused by feeling dampness-heat) at the beginning of dampness-heat syndrome, which is characterized by headache, cold, tiredness of limbs, yellowish color, body weight and pain, body heat in the afternoon, chest tightness, no hunger, white moss, no thirst, and thin and moistened pulse.
2. Qiangwu Tang is composed of Qiangwu, Cangzhu, Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Radix et Rhizoma Glycyrrhizae, Radix et Rhizoma Glycyrrhizae, Sinensis, etc. It has the efficacy of generating sweating to dispel dampness, and also clearing the internal heat, and can treat the syndrome of exogenous wind-cold-dampness and internal heat, which includes malignant cold, fever, soreness and pain in the limbs, absence of sweating, bitterness of the mouth and slight thirst, headache and strength of the collar, white or yellowish coating on the tongue, and floating or floating taut pulse.
The adverse reactions and contraindications of the above formula are not clear, it should be taken under the guidance of professional Chinese medicine practitioners for identification of symptoms.