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<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T16:35:14.646421+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
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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">ya dan zi</name>
    <name type="chinese">鸦胆子</name>
    <name type="latin">Fructus Bruceae</name>
    <name type="english">Brucea Fruit</name>
    <name type="japanese">atanshi</name>
    <name type="korean">adamja</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat, Relieve Toxicity</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Large Intestine</channel>
    <channel>Liver</channel>
  </channels>
  <safety toxic="true">Recorded toxic in this catalogue. Read the cautions on the record.</safety>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat, resolves toxicity, dries Damp, cools the Blood and kills parasites</summary>
      <indication>Chronic dysentery that comes and goes</indication>
      <indication>Dysentery with blood and mucus and rectal tenesmus</indication>
      <indication>Dysentery from amoebae or other protozoa</indication>
      <indication>Long-standing diarrhea, with stools alternating hard and loose, and hemorrhoids</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Treats malaria and Shao Yang disorders</summary>
      <indication>Malaria</indication>
      <indication>Alternating chills and fever</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Treats cancer from Heat toxin</summary>
      <indication>Cancers of the colon, rectum, breast, esophagus, stomach, skin and cervix</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Softens hardness (topical)</summary>
      <indication>Hard nodules, warts, corns and cysts, applied topically</indication>
      <indication>Trichomonas vaginitis, applied externally</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
