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Alternate Chinese names: 酢 cù; 苦酒 kǔ jiǔ

Kingdom: Plant

Origin in unofficial sources: Made from rice, sorghum, wheat, or from grain wines.

Use: Alimentary

Properties: Sour and bitter; warm; nontoxic.^✽

Channel entry: Liver and stomach channels.

Actions and indications: Disperses stasis, stanches bleeding, resolves toxin, and kills worms. Treats postpartum blood dizziness; strings and aggregations (xián pǐ); concretions and conglomerations; jaundice; yellow sweating; vomiting of blood (blood ejection); nosebleed (nǜ xuè); itchy genitals; swelling of welling- and flat-abscesses (yōng jū), and sores.

Notes: Also used in calcining (quenching in vinegar).

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