Perennial herb with a fishy odor. The rhizome walks horizontally. Flowers small, white.

Taste and attribution:

Fishwort is pungent in flavor and slightly cold in nature.

Corresponds to the lung meridian.

Functions:

It has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, eliminating carbuncles and draining pus for the treatment of lung-heat cough, and is the key medicine for treating phlegm-heat congestion of the lungs, carbuncles, coughing and vomiting pus and blood.

It can also be used to treat feverish sores and ulcers.

It can be used to clear heat and remove dampness, and it is also used to remove dampness and heat in gonorrhea.

It can also be used for treating dysentery due to dampness and heat. It can be used in water