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Alternate English names: leprosy gourd

Kingdom: Plant

Origin in unofficial sources: Momordica charantia L.

Use: Alimentary

Properties: Bitter; cold; nontoxic.^✽

Channel entry: Heart, spleen, and stomach channels.✽

Actions and indications: Clears summerheat, brightens the eyes, and resolves toxin. Treats vexation and thirst with increased fluid intake in febrile disease; summerheat stroke; dysentery; painful red eyes; swollen welling-abscesses (yōng zhǒng); cinnabar toxin (erysipelas); malign sores.

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