Glabrous Greenbrier Rhizome
Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae, Smilacis Glabrae Rhizoma
Tu Fu Ling

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Sweet; tasteless; calm

Part(s) used

Rhizome

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To remove damp, to counteract toxicity, and to improve the mobility of joints.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Damp-heat with strangury turbidity, vaginal discharge, swollen welling abscess, scrofula, scab and lichen, syphilis, mercurial poisoning.