Chinese Honeylocust
Gleditsia Sinensis
Zao Jia

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Warm; pungent

Part(s) used

Fruit

Potential toxicity/side effects

Toxic

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To relieve cough and dispel phlegm, open orifices, kill worms and dissipate binds.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Cough of phlegm asthma, wind stroke clenched jaw, phlegm-drool and congesting lung, clouded spirit with loss of speech, epilepsy, throat impediment, urinary and fecal stoppage, swollen welling abscess, scab and lichen.