Chinese Lobelia Herb

Primarily produced in Chinese provinces of Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu.

Whole herb is 15~35cm long, often tangled into a clump. Roots are thin and small, with thin and fibrous lateral rootlets. Rhizome is thin, long and cylindrical, 1~2mm diameter. Externally pale yellow or yellowish-brown with thin longitudinal wrinkles. Stem is thin and long with branches, grayish-green, with obvious joints. Alternating leaves without petioles; leaves are wrinkled, greenish-brown, narrow lanceolate or long and small after being stretched flat; flowers are small, growing singularly at leaf joints; corolla base is tube-shaped, upper portion has 5 lobes, oriented towards one side. faint odor; taste slightly sweet and acrid.

Superior medicinal material has green stems and leaves, yellow roots.

Sweet; neutral.

Clears heat, resolves toxin, promotes urination, disperse swelling. Apply to bites by snakes, anthracia and furunculosis, tonsillitis, eczema, tinea pedis, traumatic injury, jaundice and dampness and heat, appendicitis, enteritis, nephritis, cirrhosis and abdominal edema and various cancers.