Fruit -Spike of Common Selfheal, Common Selfheal Fruit-Spike
Spica Prunellae, Prunellae Spica
Xia Ku Cao

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Pungent; bitter; cold

Part(s) used

Spike

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To quench fire of the liver and counteract inflammation of the eye, and to reduce modulation and induce subsidence of swelling.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Red eyes with gall, eyeball night pain, headache and dizziness, scrofula, goiter and tuberculosis, mammary welling abscess, thyroid enlargement, scrofula, hyperplasia of mammary glands, hypertension.