Herb

Che zhe zhong shui (cart-rut water)

车辙中水che zhe zhong shui
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Recorded in Bencao Gangmu for lichen-wind skin disease, collected on the fifth of the fifth month as a wash; ox-hoofprint water also serves.

Source

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu)卷五·地水类·车辙中水·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：主疬疡风，五月五日取洗之，甚良；牛蹄迹中水亦可。

Citations
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷五·地水类·车辙中水·释名Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its classification.
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷五·地水类·车辙中水·主治Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.