Christina Loosestrife Herb

Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan.

Whole herb is tangled into a cluster, lower stem nodes sometimes have thin rootlets. Stem is crooked, about 1mm in diameter; externally reddish-brown, with longitudinal lines; fractured surface is solid grayish-white. Opposing leaves, often wrinkled and crushed, intact leaves are wide oval or heart shape, entire, upper surface is dark green to brownish-green, lower surface is light in color; after soaking in water and examining by light, black short lines can be seen; leaf stem is thin and long, sometimes one can see flower or fruit on the axil. faint odor; tasteless.

Superior medicinal material has large leaves, green color.

Sweet, salty; slightly cold

Promotes urination, frees strangury, clears heat, resolves toxin, disperses stasis, resolves swelling. Apply to calculi in the liver, gall bladder and urinary system, pyretic stranguria, edema due to nephritis, jaundice with damp-heat pathogen, anthracia and swelling, venomous snake bites, injuries from falls.