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Expelling stones
排石 〔排石〕 pái shí
A method of treatment used to cause gallstones or urinary stones to be passed out of the body through the stool or urine respectively. Before the modern era, Chinese medicine medicine knew of urinary stones (see stone strangury), but did not know of gallstones. The term 排石 pái shí comes from Western medicine (排石药 pái shí yào translating the English lithogogue
) and is now used to describe Chinese medical treatments for gallstones or urinary calculus. Formulas whose names contain the term expelling stones,
such as