Cat's claw grass Taste sweet and pungent, warm. ① "Chinese herbal medicine manual": taste slightly sweet. Guangxi Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine: sweet and sour taste, flat, non-toxic. ③ "Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine in Henan": pungent flavor, warm nature. (3) "Guangxi Chinese Medicine Journal": taste sour, sweet, flat, non-toxic. (4) "Guangxi Chinese Medicine Journal": taste pungent, nature warm. Indications Scrofulous phlegm nuclei, boils, insect and snake bites, migraine, malaria, toothache. Tuberculosis, lymph node tuberculosis, lymphadenitis, pharyngitis.