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Alternate Chinese names: 小青草 xiǎo qīng cǎo

Kingdom: Plant

Origin in unofficial sources: Rostellularia procumbens (L.) Nees [= Justicia procumbens (L.) Nees]

Use: Medicinal

Properties: Acrid and salty; cold; nontoxic.^✽

Channel entry: Liver and gallbladder channels.✽

Actions and indications: Clears heat and resolves toxin; disinhibits dampness and disperses stagnation; quickens the blood and relieves pain. Treats common cold with heat effusion; cough; sore throat; malarial disease; jaundice; nephritic edema; sinew and bone pain; child gān accumulation; welling- and flat-abscesses (yōng jū), and clove sores (dīng); injury from knocks and falls.

Production area: Grows in open grassland and damp roadsides in Shāndōng, Zhèjiāng, Jiāngsū, Jiāngxī, Húběi, Sìchuān, Yúnnán, Guǎngdōng, Fújiàn, and Táiwān.

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