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Alternate English names: chicken-dung creeper

Alternate Chinese names: 鸡矢藤 jī shǐ téng

Kingdom: Plant

Origin in unofficial sources: Paederia scandens (Lour.) Merr.

Use: Medicinal

Properties: Sweet and sour; balanced.

Actions and indications: Dispels wind and quickens the blood; relieves pain and resolves toxin; disperses food and abducts stagnation; eliminates dampness and disperses swelling. Treats wind-damp pain; diarrhea and dysentery; pain in the stomach duct and abdomen; qì vacuity swelling; clouded head and reduced eating; hepatosplenomegaly; scrofula; intestinal welling-abscesses (cháng yōng); innominate toxin swellings (wú míng zhǒng dú); injury from knocks and falls.

Production area: Shāndōng, ānhuī, Jiāngsū, Zhèjiāng, Jiāngxī, Fújiàn, Táiwān, Guǎngdōng, Guǎngxī, Húběi, Húnán.

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