Cholla Equivalent Plant: Opuntia Vulgaris
Opuntia Dillenii
Xian Ren Zhang

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Bitter; cold

Part(s) used

Root and stem

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To move qi and quicken blood, cool blood and stanch bleeding, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Stomachache, lump glomus, dysentery, throat pain, lung heat cough, tuberculosis and hemoptysis, blood ejection, bleeding from hemorrhoids, sores clove boil, mammary welling abscess, epidemic parotitis, skin lichen, snake or insect bites, scalds, frostbite.