Shan Dou Gen  "Mountain Bean Root"

Actions:

• Clears heat, removes toxins and soothes the throat: for painful and swollen throat.
• Improves the lungs: for lung heat cough.
• Reduces inflammation: recently used to treat gingivitis, swelling of the uterine cervix, and cancer of the throat, lungs, and urinary bladder.
• Clears damp-heat: for damp-heat jaundice.

Contraindications:

• Do not use in cases of diarrhea from spleen deficiency.

Dosage:

• 3-9g. Part used = root and rhizome.