Chinese Osbeckia
Osbeckia Chinensis
Jin Jin Xiang

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Part(s) used

Whole herb or root

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To transform phlegm and disinhibit damp, dispel stasis and stanch bleeding, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Cough, asthma, child gan accumulation, diarrhea and dysentery, wind-damp impediment pain, hemoptysis, spontaneous external bleeding, blood ejection, hematochezia, flooding and spotting [=metrorrhagia and metrostaxis], dysmenorrhea, menstrual block, postpartum stasis stagnation abdominal pain, toothache, prolapse of rectum, wound swelling from knocks and falls, poisonous snake bites.