Jackinthepulpit Tuber
Rhizoma Arisaematis, Arisaematis Rhizoma
Tian Nan Xing

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Bitter; pungent; warm; toxic

Part(s) used

Tuber

Potential toxicity/side effects

Extremely toxic

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To remove damp-phlegm, to dispel wind and arrest convulsions, and to promote the subsidence of induration and swelling.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Wind stroke with congesting phlegm, deviated eyes and mouth, hemiplegia, deadlimb, wind-phlegm dizziness, epilepsy, fright wind, tetanus, spasm, neuralgia, cough with profuse phlegm, swollen welling abscess, scrofula, poisonous snake bite, knocks and falls, carcinoma of uterine cervix.