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Kingdom: Plant

Origin in unofficial sources: Phytolacca americana L.

Use: Medicinal

Properties: Slightly sweet, bitter, and numbing^✽; slightly toxic.^✽

Actions and indications: Disinhibits urine.* Treats chronic nephritis; pleurisy; ascites; leg qì (jiǎo qì). Applied externally to innominate toxin swellings (wú míng zhǒng dú) and fungus-type skin diseases.*

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