Dutohmanspipe Fruit
Fructus Aristolochiae
Ma Dou Ling

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Cold; slightly pungent; bitter

Part(s) used

Fruit

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To remove heat from the lung and relieve cough and asthma, and to remove heat from the large intestine.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Lung heat cough asthma, phlegm congestion and hasty qi , lung vacuity enduring cough, intestinal heat bleeding from hemorrhoids, swelling pain from hemorrhoids, edema.