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Alternate Chinese names: 川萆薢 chuān bēi xiè

Kingdom: Plant

Origin in unofficial sources: Smilax glabra Roxb.; Smilax glauco-china Warb.; Smilax mairei Lévl.

Use: Medicinal

Properties: Bitter^✽; balanced^✽; nontoxic.^✽

Channel entry: Liver, stomach, and kidney channels.✽

Actions and indications: Dispels wind-damp, separates the clear and the turbid, disinhibits joints, and resolves sore toxin.* Treats wind-damp pain; impediment (bì) pain of the lumbus and knee; strangury-turbidity (lìn zhuó); syphilis; malign sores.*

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