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Involute Spikemoss
Selaginella Involvens
Yan Zhou Juan Bai


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Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Part(s) used

Whole herb

Potential toxicity/side effects


Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To clear heat and disinhibit damp, relieve cough, stanch bleeding, resolve toxin.


Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Damp-heat jaundice, dysentery, edema, ascites, strangury syndrome, phlegm-damp cough, hemoptysis, blood ejection, hematochezia, flooding and spotting, bleeding due to external injury, mammary welling abscess, scrofula, hemorrhoids, scalds.