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Latin pharmacognostic name: Strobilanthis Herba

Kingdom: Plant

Origin (other sources): Strobilanthes japonicus (Thunb.) Miq.

Use: Medicinal

Category:

Properties: Bitter and slightly acrid; warm.

Channel entry: Liver and spleen channels.*

Indications:

Disperses stasis and moves water; soothes the liver and disperses depression.*

menstrual irregularities; postpartum abdominal pain and dribbling discharge; blood dizziness; concretions and conglomerations; swollen welling-abscesses (yōng zhǒng); injury from knocks and falls; water swelling.*

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