Jackinthepulpit Tuber
Rhizoma Arisaematis
Sheng Nan Xing

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Warm; pungent; bitter

Part(s) used

Potential toxicity/side effects

Extremely toxic

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

Treatment of intractable phlegm with cough, vertigo, stroke with phlegm in the throat, deviation of the eye and the mouth,and hemiplegia, epilepsy and convulsions, tetanus. external use of the crude drug for boils, sores, snake and insect bite.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

1. its aqueous infusion or alcohol extract exerts an anticonvulsive effect in mice.2. oral administration of its decoction can eliminate phlegm in mice.