Bistort Rhizome, Rhizome of Bistort
Bistortae Rhizoma, Rhizoma Bistortae
Quan Shen

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Bitter; astringent; slightly cold

Part(s) used

Rhizome

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To remove toxic heat, to promote the subsidence of swelling, and to arrest bleeding.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Red dysentery, heat diarrhea, lung heat cough, swollen welling abscess, scrofula, mouth sore, tongue sores, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, bleeding from hemorrhoids, poisonous snake bite.