Flower of Sunset Abelmoschus

【Functions and Indication】Clear and disinhibit damp-heat, disperse swelling and resolve toxin. For treatment of damp-heat obstruction, strangury-turbidity and water swelling, swelling and toxin of welling-abscess and flat-abscess, burns and scalds.

【Administration and Dosage】10-30g; Grind it into powder for oral administration (3-5g). Proper amount for external use: make a paste from the powder and apply it to the affected part.

【Precautions】Not recommended for pregnant women.

【Characteristics】An important medicine for kidney diseases that first appeared in the Handbook of Prescriptions for Emergencies written by Ge Hong. The subsequent Materia Medica of Jia You Reign has specific descriptions of the effects of sunset abelmoschus flower – treating stranguria and hastening parturition by grinding it into powder for application. Professor Xiong Ningning, a modern-day expert in nephrology, has found a decrease of protein in urine for some nephritis patients after the use of sunset abelmoschus flower. The phase IV study of ambrette capsules, an innovative drug for chronic kidney diseases, has been approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology as part of the 12th Five-Year Plan major new drug development and manufacture project.