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Xiong Huang

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Pungent; warm; toxic

Part(s) used

Potential toxicity/side effects

Toxic

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

Treatment of carbuncles, boils, snake-bite, insect-bite, abdominal pain due to intestinal parasitosis, infantile convulsion, malaria.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Inhibiting the growth of pyogenic cocci, bacillus tuberculosis and various pathogenic fungi.