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Kingdom: Plant

Origin in unofficial sources: Achyranthes aspera L.

Use: Medicinal

Properties: Bitter and acrid; cold; nontoxic.^✽

Actions and indications: Clears heat, resolves exterior, disinhibits water, and quickens the blood. Treats common cold and heat effusion; dysentery; malarial disease; sore throat; leg qì (jiǎo qì); strangury; water swelling; injury from knocks and falls.

Production area: Guǎngdōng, Guǎngxī, Yúnnán, Guìzhōu, Fújiàn, Húnán, Shāndōng, Jiāngsū.

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