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<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T16:34:37.723971+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
  <canonical>https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/zhen-zhu-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>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">zhēn zhū căo</name>
    <name type="chinese">珍珠草</name>
    <name type="latin">Herba Phyllanthi Urinariae</name>
    <name type="english">common leafflower</name>
  </names>
  <channels>
    <channel>Lung</channel>
    <channel>Liver</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Calms the Liver, clears Heat, promotes urination and resolves toxicity</summary>
      <indication>Enteritis and dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Infectious hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Edema from kidney disease</indication>
      <indication>Urinary tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Nebula of the eye</indication>
      <indication>Mouth ulcers (aphtha)</indication>
      <indication>Porrigo</indication>
      <indication>Malnutrition in infants</indication>
      <indication>Jaundice from Damp-Heat in the Liver and Gallbladder</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
