Chinese Honeylocust Spine, Spine of Chinese Honeylocust
Spina Gleditsiae, Gleditsiae Spina
Zao Jiao Ci

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Pungent; warm

Part(s) used

Potential toxicity/side effects

Toxic

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To cause subsidence of swelling, to draw out of pus, and to kill parasites.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

1. to relieve carbuncle and drain pus. for the early stage of carbuncle or carbuncle with unruptured abscess. 2. to expel wind and kill parasites. for tinea infection and leprosy.