Asiatic Pennywort Herb
Herba Centellae, Centellae Herba
Ji Xue Cao

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Bitter; pungent; cold

Part(s) used

Whole herb with root

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To remove heat and damp, to counteract toxicity, and to cause subsidence of swelling.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Sand qi abdominal pain, summerheat-heat diarrhea, dysentery, damp-heat jaundice, sand strangury, blood strangury, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, red eyes, swollen throat, wind papules, scab and lichen, swelling toxin of clove welling abscess, knocks and falls, hypertension.