Latin Name: Trichosanthes kirilowii Maxim
Form: Powder
Product description:Radix Trichosanthis is a flowering plant in the family Cucurbitaceae, It is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine.The tuber of this plant is known in Mandarin as tian hua fen. In traditional Chinese medicine it is said to drain heat and generate fluids, clear and drain lung heat, transform phlegm, and moisten lung dryness, and resolve toxicity and expel pus. The fruit of the plant, also referred to in Mandarin as gualou, is said to clear heat and transform phlegm-heat, unbind the chest and dissipate nodules, and reduces abscesses and dissipate nodules.