Indications: clearing away heat and toxic materials, dispersing blood and reducing swelling.

Treat heat dysentery, purulent blood, heat stranguria, blood stranguria, leukorrhagia, carbuncle, swelling, malignant sore, erysipelas and scars.

Used for diarrhea and dysentery caused by damp-heat, often combined with Coptidis Rhizoma and Radix Aucklandiae.

Oral administration or external application of mashed juice can treat carbuncle swelling.

It is also used for hematochezia and uterine bleeding, and has hemostatic effect.