Latin name： Eryngium foetidum L.

Family： Apiaceae

Part Used： whole plant with root

Properties： Taste pungent, bitter, neutral in nature

Actions： Effusing exterior for suppressing cough, promoting eruption and detoxifying, regulating qi-flowing for suppressing pains, disinhibiting urine for detumescence.

Usage： Common cold, dyspnea with cough, measles without adequate eruptions, pharyngalgia, abdominal pain, dyspepsia, retching and hiccups, gastric and abdominal swelling pain, dysentery, acute appendicitis, hepatitis