Common Gold-Hair Moss
Polytrichum Commune
Jin Fa Xian

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Part(s) used

Frond

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To enrich yin and clear heat, cool blood and stanch bleeding.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Steaming bone tidal fever due to yin vacuity, night sweating, tuberculosis with cough, blood ejection due to blood heat, spontaneous external bleeding, hemoptysis, hematochezia, flooding and spotting.