Alum Alumen
Not yet categorizedCold
Source-based · educational reference
Traditional recorded function
External use: detoxify, kill parasites, and relieve itching; internal use: Resolve Phlegm, stop bleeding, and stop diarrhea
1. Used for eczema, damp sores, and scabies and tinea. 2. Used for chronic diarrhea and chronic dysentery. 3. Used for blood in the stool, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, and traumatic bleeding. 4. Used for syncope, epilepsy, mania and withdrawal, etc., caused by wind-phlegm. 5. Can be used for rectal prolapse, uterine prolapse, Damp-heat jaundice, and other diseases and patterns.
Nature & taste
SourAstringentCold
Meridians entered
LungSpleenLiver
Herbal properties
ColdAstringentDrying