Shearer'S Pyrrosia Leaf, Pyrrosiae Folium
Folium Pyrrosiae, Pyrrosiae Folium
Shi Wei

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Sweet; bitter; slightly cold

Part(s) used

Leaf

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

Disinhibit urine and free stranguryclear the lung and suppress coughcool the blood and stanch bleeding

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Heat strangury, blood strangury, stone strangury, urinary stoppage, dripping with inhibited pain, blood ejection, nosebleed(epistaxis), hematuria, flooding and spotting, lung heat cough asthma, urethral stone, urinary tract infection, bleeding.