Has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, purging fire and relaxing bowels.
Indications: excessive toxic heat, constipation, diarrhea, sore throat, conjunctival congestion and carbuncle.
Compendium of Materia Medica: Dietary poisoning is beneficial to urination, and it can be solved by boiling juice often.
Rattan, woody vine, 10 m long. Its stem is cylindrical and slightly twisted, with a diameter of 0.6~75px. The surface is grayish brown to yellowish brown, rough, with longitudinal grooves and transverse cracks, and the old stem bark is easy to peel off. Hard, not easy to break, when broken, a lot of dust can be seen flying, the cross section is irregular, yellow, fibrous, with brown and tan alternate radial texture, the catheter is fine, the xylem is sometimes cracked, and the center is mostly tan or hollow. Often born in the dense forests of valleys or on stone walls.