Herb

Cao ma sheng suo (a fibre cord)

草麻绳索cao ma sheng suo

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Recorded in Bencao Gangmu for severe abdominal water-swelling, thirty pieces husked and ground in water and taken at dawn, expected to discharge water by noon.

Source

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu)卷三十八·器物类·草麻绳索·主治

References

functions_en self-translated from 本草纲目 traditional_functions (public domain; the Chinese tf carries verbatim excerpt_hash citations). No modern work consulted.
WHO IST-TCM terminology-aligned for the English rendering.
public pharmacopoeia & physical facts (public-domain reference facts; no proprietary modern source).

Traditional functions

Classical source text (Chinese) — English summary above.

传统中医记载：主大腹水病，取三十枚去皮研水三合旦服，日中当吐下水汁。

Citations

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷三十八·器物类·草麻绳索·释名Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its classification.
Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷三十八·器物类·草麻绳索·主治Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.