Shortpetalflower
Brachystemma Calycinum
Duan Ban Hua

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Part(s) used

Root or whole herb

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To quicken blood and transform stasis, free strangury and transform turbid, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Blood stasis and dysmenorrhea, menstrual block, aberratio mensium, concretion and conglomeration with mass, heat strangury, blood strangury, white turbidity, leukorrhea, impediment pain into network vessels, hypertonicity of sinews and vessels, knocks and falls, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, nipple moth, diphtheria.