Herb

River snail (Tian luo)

田蠃tian luo

1 sourceCipangopaludina

Recorded in Bencao Gangmu for hot red painful eyes, relieving thirst, and (cooked) freeing the bowels and urine.

Source

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu)卷四十六·介部·蛤蚌类·田蠃·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 & zoological facts (public-domain reference facts; no proprietary modern source).

Traditional functions

Classical source text (Chinese) — English summary above.

传统中医记载：目热赤痛，止渴；煮食，利大小便。

Nature, flavor & meridians

Nature & flavor: 甘，大寒，无毒。

Citations

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷四十六·介部·蛤蚌类·田蠃·条名Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its classification.
Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷四十六·介部·蛤蚌类·田蠃·气味Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its nature & flavor.
Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷四十六·介部·蛤蚌类·田蠃·主治Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.