Herb

Floating Heart (Xing cai)

荇菜xing cai
1 sourceNymphoides peltata (S.G.Gmel.) Kuntze

Recorded for clearing heat, relieving wasting-thirst and strangury, promoting urination, and applied to toxic swellings.

Source

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu)卷十九·水草·荇菜·主治（唐本）

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 & botanical facts (public-domain reference facts; no proprietary modern source).
Traditional functions

Classical source text (Chinese) — English summary above.

传统中医记载：《唐本》载主消渴、去热淋、利小便；《开宝》载捣汁服疗寒热；时珍谓捣傅诸肿毒、火丹游肿。

Nature, flavor & meridians

Nature & flavor: 甘，冷，无毒。

Citations
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷十九·水草·荇菜·集解Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its classification.
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷十九·水草·荇菜·释名Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its alternate names.
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷十九·水草·荇菜·气味Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its nature & flavor.
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷十九·水草·荇菜·主治（唐本）Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.