National Museum of Natural Science

Indigenous language name: sakisan

Skin and musculoskeletal system:

A healer would mash it and apply to cure boils that had just erupted.

Interview and specimen numbers: Yen 42854, 43929, 44279, 45795

Zhong Hua Ben Cao

Pharmacological properties: Tastes slightly bitter, cold in nature.

Functions and indications: Clears heat, detoxifies, removes dampness, and stops bleeding. Mainly used to treat hot flashes induced by cold/flu, cough, sore throat, enteritis, dystentery, hepatitis, leucorrhea due to heat and dampness, swelling and toxicity of carbuncles, ulcers or sores, mumps, burns, poisonous snake bites, bite from a rabid animal, eczema, hematemesis, hematuria, hematochezia, and bleeding from wounds.

Sphenomeris chusana (L.) Copel.