Christina Loosestrife
Lysimachia Herba, Herba Lysimachiae
Jin Qian Cao

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Sweet; salty; slightly cold

Part(s) used

Herb

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To disinhibit water and free strangury, clear heat and resolve toxin, dissipate stasis and disperse swelling.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Gallstones, calculus of urinary system, heat strangury, nephritis with edema, damp-heat jaundice, swollen welling abscess, sore and boil, poisonous snake bite, knocks and falls.