| [English Name] | Chinese Dicliptera Herb | |
| [Chinese Name] | 狗肝菜 | |
| [Pinying Name] | Gougancai | |
| [Latin Name] | Diclipterae Chinensis Herba | |
| [Genera] | Acanthaceae | |
| [Efficacy] | Antipyretic drug | |
| [Pictures] | Plant picture | Drug picture |
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| [Ecology] | 1、It grows in open forest、stream side、road side、garden beside village、grass,half-shadow at the altitude below 1800 metres. 2、It grows in wilderness or open forest. |
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| [Clinical trial] | 无 | |
| [Properties] | Taste: sweet, slightly bitter; property: cold; belong to heart, lung and liver channels. |
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| [Medical and other Uses] | Function: clearing away the heat-evil, , eliminating wetness cooling the blood, removing toxic agents. Syndromes to be treated: cold and fever, hyperactivity cough, sore throat, red eys, convulsions in children, leaching Lek urine, vaginal discharge, spit bleed at the nose, blood in the stool, blood in urine, uterine bleeding, herpes zoster and carbuncles boils boils, snake bite. |
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| [Dosage] | Oral administration: decoction, dry herb 30～ Topical application: in right amount, smashed and smear on the skin, or wash with the decoction. |
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| [Cautions] | Be carefully to be used in the patient with the syndrome of deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach. |
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| [Traditional usage] |
1. External use 2. Common cold with high fever 3. Cough caused by lung heat 4. Eruption and hemoptysis induced by high fever 5. Eruptive syndrome 6. Sore throat 7. Reddish eyes induced by liver heat 8. Dysentery with hemafecia 9. Stranguria 10. Hematuria 11. Chyluria 12. Morbid leucorrhea, metrorrhagia 13. Infantile convulsion |
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