It is known for resolving fire toxicity, particularly good for high fevers:
It clears heat and resolves fire toxicity due to snake bite:
It stops diarrhea (dysentery) due to damp heat in the lower jiao:
Resolves fire toxicity causing a sore throat and urinary tract infections:
It looks like this fresh:
And looks like little green sticks when dried:
It's name means penetrating the heart lotus, and it is Chuan Xin Lian.
Chuan = Penetrate, Xin = Heart, Lian = Lotus
This herb is clearly stick like. Used for penetrating the heart to resolve fire toxicity that results in high fevers. It goes to the LU/LI (metal), SI (fire), and ST (earth). Because it penetrates the heart and resolves fire toxicity, this helps to clear the SI heat which might be causing UTI. In the LU/LI it is both relieving cough and sore throat as well as stopping diarrhea due to dysentery (it is drying the dampness).
The herb is pretty cold and it is bitter. In comparing this herb used to treat UTIs and dysentery to some of the other dysentery herbs, it seems to me that this one is not so much for killing parasites as it is for clearing heat and infection in the lower G.I. tract. Heat disorders. Like Dennis said, high fevers. And other problems caused by heat: snakebite, sores, eczema (topically), UTI, etc.
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