Common Baphicacanthus Leaf
Strobilanthes Cusia
Ma Lan Ye

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Part(s) used

Stem-leaf

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To clear heat and resolve toxin, cool blood and stanch bleeding.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Warm heat disease, ardent fever with headache, macular eruption, lung heat cough, damp-heat diarrhea dysentery, jaundice, scarlatina, measles papules, swelling pain in throat, mouth sore, epidemic parotitis, lymphrnoditis, liver welling abscess, intestinal welling abscess, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, gum hemorrhage, flooding and spotting, sore and boil, snake or insect bites.