Figwort Root
Radix Scrophulariae, Scrophulariae Radix
Xuan Shen

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Sweet; bitter; salty; slightly cold

Part(s) used

Root

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To reduce heat from blood, to nourish yin, to quench fire, and to counteract toxicity.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Heat entering construction-blood, generalized fever, vexation and thirst, crimson tongue, macular eruption, steaming bone taxation cough, vacuity vexation and insomnia, fluid damage and constipation, dry eyes with clouded flowery vision, swelling pain in throat, scrofula with phlegm node, sore toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess.