Dandelion has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing swelling and resolving hard mass, and promoting diuresis and stranguria. Indications: furuncle, swollen poison, breast carbuncle, carbuncle, conjunctival congestion, sore throat, lung carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle, damp-heat jaundice, heat stranguria and astringent pain. Luffa has the effects of expelling wind, dredging collaterals, promoting blood circulation and lactation. Indications: it can be used to treat arthralgia and contracture, chest and hypochondriac swelling and pain, breast obstruction, and swelling and pain of breast carbuncle.

Luffa, the name of traditional Chinese medicine. It is the vascular bundle of dried and mature fruit of Cucurbitaceae plant Luffa. In summer and autumn, when the fruit is ripe, the peel turns yellow and the inside is dry, pick it, remove the skin and pulp, wash it, dry it in the sun and remove the seeds. The medicinal site is the reticular fiber (vascular bundle) of the mature fruit of the plant.