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Alternate Chinese names: 路边菊 lù biān jú; 田边菊 tián biān jú; 田菊 tián jú; 马兰菜 mǎ lán cài

Kingdom: Plant

Origin in unofficial sources: Kalimeris indica (L.) Sch.-Bip.

Use: Medicinal

Properties: Acrid; cool; nontoxic*.

Channel entry: Yang brightness (yáng míng), lung, and liver channels.*

Actions and indications: Cools the blood; clears heat; disinhibits dampness; resolves toxin. Treats vomiting of blood (blood ejection); nosebleed (nǜ xuè); blood dysentery; bleeding from external injury; malarial disease; jaundice; water swelling; strangury-turbidity (lìn zhuó); sore throat; throat impediment (hóu bì); hemorrhoids; swollen welling-abscesses (yōng zhǒng); cinnabar toxin (erysipelas); snake bites.

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