Shrub Lespedeza
Lespedeza Bicolor
Hu Zhi Zi

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Sweet; neutral

Part(s) used

Stem-leaf

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To clear heat and moisten lung, disinhibit urine and free strangury, stanch bleeding.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Lung heat cough, common cold with fever, pertussis, strangury syndrome, spontaneous external bleeding, blood ejection, hematuria, hematochezia.