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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
  <canonical>https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/ji-xue-cao/</canonical>
  <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>
  <attribution-html>&lt;a href=&quot;https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/ji-xue-cao/&quot;&gt;Bencao Index&lt;/a&gt;</attribution-html>
  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">ji xue cao</name>
    <name type="chinese">积雪草</name>
    <name type="latin">Herba Centellae</name>
    <name type="english">asiatic pennywort</name>
  </names>
  <channels>
    <channel>Lung</channel>
    <channel>Large Intestine</channel>
    <channel>Spleen</channel>
    <channel>Small Intestine</channel>
    <channel>Bladder</channel>
    <channel>Kidney</channel>
    <channel>Liver</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat, promotes urination, reduces swelling and resolves toxicity</summary>
      <indication>Dysentery, and jaundice from Damp-Heat</indication>
      <indication>Sores, abscesses and boils</indication>
      <indication>Traumatic injury</indication>
      <indication>Blood in the urine, and nosebleed</indication>
      <indication>Urinary stones</indication>
      <indication>Sore throat, rubella and conjunctivitis (pinkeye)</indication>
      <indication>Scabies</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea from Summerheat</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain with an eruptive disease</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Invigorates Blood, reduces swelling and relieves pain</summary>
      <indication>Traumatic injuries</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Damp-Heat</summary>
      <indication>Enteritis</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Cools the Blood and stops bleeding</summary>
      <indication>Bleeding from Heat in the Blood, including vomiting or coughing up blood</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears the Liver and brightens the eyes</summary>
      <indication>Night blindness in children</indication>
      <indication>Eye inflammation</indication>
      <indication>Cataract and glaucoma</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
