Sunset Abelmoschus Flower
Abelmoschi Corolla
Huang Shu Kui Hua

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Sweet; cold

Part(s) used

Flower

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To disinhibit urine and free strangury, quicken blood and stanch bleeding, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Strangury syndrome, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, flooding and spotting [= metrorrhagia and metrostaxis], retention of afterbirth, swollen welling abscess and sore toxin, burns and scalds.