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<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T18:05:38.032828+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <licence>Free to use and republish with visible attribution and a link back to the source page. The catalogue is a reference work and is knowingly incomplete; nothing in it is medical advice.</licence>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">bai ji li</name>
    <name type="chinese">白蒺藜</name>
    <name type="latin">Fructus Tribuli</name>
    <name type="english">Caltrop Fruit</name>
    <name type="japanese">byakushitsuri</name>
    <name type="korean">paekchillyeo</name>
  </names>
  <category>Extinguish Wind, Stop Tremors</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Liver</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Calms the Liver and anchors Yang</summary>
      <indication>Rising Liver Yang or Liver Fire with headache, dizziness or vertigo, blurred vision and a bitter taste</indication>
      <indication>Hypertension</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Spreads Liver Qi and disperses stagnation and clumping</summary>
      <indication>Constrained Liver Qi with fullness, distension and pain in the chest and flanks, irregular periods, or too little breast milk</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Dispels Wind-Heat and brightens the eyes</summary>
      <indication>Red, swollen, painful or itchy eyes</indication>
      <indication>Excessive tearing and sensitivity to light</indication>
      <indication>Superficial obstruction of vision</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Dispels Wind and stops itching</summary>
      <indication>Strongly itching skin lesions of any kind, such as hives, eczema or neurodermatitis, including itch from Wind with Blood deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Vitiligo, for which it may be used on its own</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Extinguishes Liver Wind</summary>
      <indication>Liver Wind</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
