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<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T16:35:58.795329+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">chan su</name>
    <name type="chinese">蟾酥</name>
    <name type="latin">Venenum Bufonis</name>
    <name type="english">Toad Venom</name>
    <name type="japanese">senso</name>
    <name type="korean">seomseo</name>
  </names>
  <category>External Application</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Stomach</channel>
    <channel>Heart</channel>
  </channels>
  <safety toxic="true">Recorded toxic in this catalogue. Read the cautions on the record.</safety>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Resolves toxicity, reduces swelling and relieves pain</summary>
      <indication>Swelling of the throat from toxic Phlegm-Heat</indication>
      <indication>Swellings, sores, boils, carbuncles and ulcers, applied topically or taken internally</indication>
      <indication>Painful sores and swellings, as a strong local painkiller</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Expels Summerheat and Damp, opens the orifices, revives consciousness and tonifies the Heart</summary>
      <indication>Sudden loss of consciousness with abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, from Summerheat with heavy turbidity</indication>
      <indication>Sudden collapse or heatstroke-type closed patterns</indication>
      <indication>Yang deficiency of the Heart and Kidneys</indication>
      <indication>Devastated Yang</indication>
      <indication>Fluid congestion of the Heart and Lungs</indication>
      <indication>Stagnant Lung Qi with Cold Phlegm</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Attacks toxins, reduces swelling, resists cancer and calms panic</summary>
      <indication>Various types of cancer</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
