Shiningleaf Birch Bark
Betula Luminifera
Liang Ye Hua Pi

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Sweet; acrid; minor warm

Part(s) used

Bark

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To dispel damp and dissipate cold, disperse stagnation and harmonize center, resolve toxin.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Common cold, wind-damp impediment pain, food accumulation distention and fullness, short voidings of reddish urine, mammary welling abscess, sore toxin, wind papules.