Croton Fruit
Crotonis Fructus, Fructus Crotonis
Ba Dou

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Pungent; hot; extremely poisonous

Part(s) used

Seed

Potential toxicity/side effects

Extremely toxic

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

1. to drain accumulated cold downward; 2. to transform water and reduce edema; 3. to resolve phlegm and benefit throat

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Distention fullness and sudden pain in chest and abdomen, fecal stoppage, diarrhea and dysentery, edema and enlarged abdomen, phlegm-rheum asthma fullness, throat wind, throat impediment, concretion and conglomeration, welling abscess and flat abscess, malign sore and scab lichen.