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Kingdom: Plant

Origin in unofficial sources: Polygonum hydropiper L.

Use: Medicinal

Properties: Acrid; warm; nontoxic.^✽

Channel entry: Lung, kidney, and liver channels.✽

Actions and indications: Warms the center and disinhibits water; breaks stasis and disperses binds. Treats vomiting and diarrhea with abdominal pain; concretions and conglomerations; water swelling; swollen welling-abscesses (yōng zhǒng) and sores; scrofula.

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