Herb

Xie di xia tu (earth from a shoe-sole)

鞋底下土xie di xia tu

1 source

Recorded in Bencao Gangmu for travel-sickness from unfamiliar water and soil, scraped off and taken in water.

Source

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu)卷七·土部·鞋底下土·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：主适他方不伏水土，刮下和水服，即止。

Citations

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷七·土部·鞋底下土·条名Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its classification.
Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷七·土部·鞋底下土·主治Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.