Latin name： Acanthopanox trifoliatus (L.) Merr.

Family： Araliaceae

Part Used： Roots or root barks, leaves and twigs

Properties： Taste bitter, pungent, cool in nature

Actions：Roots or root barks: clearing heat-toxin, dispersing wind and dampness, quickening blood for relaxing sinew; Leaves and twigs: clearing heat-toxin, quickening blood for detumescence and removing dampness for closing sores.

Usage：Roots or root barks:cold and pyrexia, pharyngalgia, headache, cough and chest pain, pain of gastric cavity, diarrhea, dysentery, costalgia, jaundice,stranguria caused by urinary stones, leukorrhea, rheumatic arthralgia, weakness in loins and legs, muscle spasms and numbness, fall injuries and fractures, mumps, mammary abscess, pyocutaneous disease and swelling, bites by snakes and insects; Leaves and twigs: cold and pyrexia, cough and chest pain, dysentery, Rheumatic arthralgia, injury from falls, fractures, cuts, ulcerative carbuncle and suppurative infection, sore mouth, eczema, scabies, bites by toxic insects.