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Cat’s claw herb
钩藤
Cat’s claw herb is a plant from family Rubiaceae. The dried stems and branches of this plant are used in TCM.
Taste, Characteristic, and Meridian
Sweet and cool in nature.
Returns to the liver and pericardium meridians.
Value in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Quiets liver wind and alleviates palpitations, clears heat and calms the liver.
It is used in treating liver wind, epilepsy and convulsions, convulsions of high fever, colds with convulsions, crying of children, caused by pain, eclampsia in pregnancy, headache and dizziness.
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