Prepared Jackinthepulpit Tuber
Rhizoma Arisaematis Praeparata
Zhi 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

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.