Rock-Ears
Umbilicaria Proboscidea
Shi Er

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Sweet; neutral

Part(s) used

Lichen

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To nourish yin and moisten lung, cool blood and stanch bleeding, clear heat and resolve toxin.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Lung vacuity taxation cough, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, flooding and spotting [=metrorrhagia and metrostaxis], intestinal wind bleeding, hemorrhoids and fistulas, prolapse of rectum, strangury-turbidity, vaginal discharge, poisonous snake bites, scalds, knife wound.