Giant Typhonium Rhizome, Rhizome of Giant Typhonium
Typhonii Rhizoma, Rhizoma Typhonii
Bai Fu Zi

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Pungent; warm; toxic

Part(s) used

Tuberoid

Potential toxicity/side effects

Toxic

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To dispel wind-phlegm, to check convulsions, and to counteract toxicity, promote subsidence of modulation and relieve pain.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Treatment of stroke with gurgling in the throat, deviation of the eye and the mouth, and impairment of speech, upward invasion of phlegm causing headache accompanied with dizziness, heaviness of the body, restlessness, fidgetness, nausea and cold extremit