Japanese Climbing Fern Spore, Spore of Japanese Climbing Fern
Lygodii Spora, Spora Lygodii
Hai Jin Sha

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Sweet; salty; cold

Part(s) used

Aerial parts

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To promote diuresis and treat stranguria

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Heat strangury, stone strangury, blood strangury, inhibited urination [=dysuria], edema, white turbidity, vaginal discharge, hepatitis, diarrhea, dysentery, common cold with fever, cough and asthma, swelling pain in throat, mouth sore, red eyes with gall, mumps, mammary welling abscess, erysipelas, zoster, burns and scalds, itchy skin, wound swelling from knocks and falls, wind-damp impediment pain, bleeding due to external injury.