Latin name： Rhoeo discolor (L’ Her.) Hance

Family： Commelinaceae

Part Used： Flower, leaves

Properties： Taste sweet, tasteless, cool in nature

Actions：Flower: Clearing the lung for dissipating phlegm, cooling blood and relieving hemorrhage; Leaves: Clear away heat and detoxify, resolve phlegm and stop bleeding

Usage：Flowers: Cough due to lung heat, whooping cough, hemoptysis, epistaxis, bloody diarrhea, blood in the stool, scrofula; Leaves: cough due to lung heat, vomiting blood, epistaxis, blood in the stool, diarrhea, bruises, scrofula, boils