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Clears damp-heat and promotes urination ... this Guangdong Jin Qian Cao lane is classically used for hot painful urination, stone strangury, gravel, and dark scanty urine.
Facilitates stone passage ... regional practice especially values Desmodium styracifolium for urinary and biliary stone patterns.
Clears damp-heat jaundice and related hepatobiliary irritation ... it is also used when yellowing, bitter taste, and lower-burner heat occur together.

Shi Lin Tong and related stone-expelling prescriptions ... Desmodium-based Jin Qian Cao is a classic principal herb for damp-heat calculi.
San Jin style pairings with Hai Jin Sha and Ji Nei Jin ... a common urinary-stone strategy.
Damp-heat jaundice combinations with Yin Chen and Zhi Zi ... hepatobiliary heat-clearing logic.

Hong Kong comparison materials distinguish Herba Desmodii Styracifolii from Herba Lysimachiae while noting that both are used for lithiasis and hepatobiliary disease.
Traditional usage in southern China strongly links Guang Dong Jin Qian Cao with stone and strangury patterns rather than treating all Jin Qian Cao sources as interchangeable.