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<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T16:36:08.002402+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
  <canonical>https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/ya-zhi-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/ya-zhi-cao/&quot;&gt;Bencao Index&lt;/a&gt;</attribution-html>
  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">ya zhi cao</name>
    <name type="chinese">鸭跖草</name>
    <name type="latin">Herba Commelinae</name>
    <name type="english">common dayflower</name>
    <name type="japanese">osekiso</name>
    <name type="korean">abcheokcho</name>
  </names>
  <category>Drain Fire</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Lung</channel>
    <channel>Stomach</channel>
    <channel>Small Intestine</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat, drains Fire, and mildly resolves toxicity and cools the Blood</summary>
      <indication>Fever from a fairly superficial Warm pathogen</indication>
      <indication>Fever and sore throat with the common cold</indication>
      <indication>Persistent fever in Warm pathogen disease</indication>
      <indication>Leukorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Sores and boils</indication>
      <indication>Uterine bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Hepatitis with jaundice</indication>
      <indication>Erysipelas</indication>
      <indication>Barbiers</indication>
      <indication>Mumps (parotitis)</indication>
      <indication>Nosebleed</indication>
      <indication>Dysentery</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat, promotes urination and relieves painful urinary dysfunction</summary>
      <indication>Hot, painful urination with edema, and blood in the urine</indication>
      <indication>Edema with little urine</indication>
      <indication>Acute rheumatoid arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Scanty urine (uropenia)</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
