Whole grass (gallbladder):

Sexual taste

Bitter, pungent and cold.

Functional indication

Clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and promoting diuresis. Used for epistaxis, jaundice, stranguria, beriberi, edema, carbuncle, furuncle and snake bite.

Hedyotis diffusa is also used as medicine, but its efficacy is not as good as Hedyotis diffusa.