Fourfile Germander
Teucrium Quadrifarium
Tie Zhou Cao

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Acrid; bitter; cool

Part(s) used

Whole herb, root or leaf

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To dispel wind and resolve summerheat, disinhibit damp and disperse swelling, cool blood and resolve toxin.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Wind-heat common cold, summerheat stroke and anidrosis, lung heat cough asthma, pulmonary welling abscess, heat toxin dysentery, edema, wind-damp pain, taxation damage, blood ejection, hematochezia, mammary welling abscess, innominate toxin swelling, wind papules, eczema, knocks and falls, bleeding due to external injury, poisonous snake bite, bee sting.