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<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T16:35:46.929474+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">hong jing tian</name>
    <name type="chinese">红景天</name>
    <name type="latin">Radix et Rhizoma Rhodiolae Crenulatae</name>
    <name type="english">gold theragran; integripetal rhodiola herb</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Lung</channel>
    <channel>Spleen</channel>
    <channel>Heart</channel>
    <channel>Kidney</channel>
    <channel>Liver</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Strengthens the Spleen and tonifies Qi</summary>
      <indication>Spleen Qi deficiency</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Lung Heat, nourishes Lung Yin and stops cough</summary>
      <indication>Cough from Lung Heat, including cough with pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Vomiting or coughing up blood</indication>
      <indication>Lung Yin deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Bronchitis</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Invigorates Blood and transforms stasis</summary>
      <indication>Blood stasis from traumatic injury, applied topically</indication>
      <indication>Burns and scalds, applied topically</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Promotes contraction</summary>
      <indication>Abnormal vaginal discharge</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
