Ma Chi Xian, fresh (above), dried (below). Doesn't look like horse teeth to me!
Ma= Horse
Chi= Teeth
Xian=amaranth
It is a wild vegetable grown throughout China and known as a long-life vegetable. What this has got to do with horse's teeth, I have no idea.
This herb is sour, slippery, and cold. It cools the blood and goes to the Liver and Large Intestine channels. It is one of the herbs that treats dysentery, specifically the kind manifesting as burning sudden turmoil with a feeling of incomplete bowel movements (colicky tenesmus). It's slippery nature lines the large intestine preparing the way for the accumulated damp heat toxin to easily be flushed out. The slippery nature also unblocks painful urinary dribbling (UTIs).
So, poop and pee.
But also Ma Chi Xian is good for damp-heat toxic sores (carbuncles), as well as wasp stings and snake bites. The zoo card shows a wasp pulling diarrhea out of the butt of a whale. That kind of says it all, don't you think?
Because of its damp heat clearing function, and the fact that it is a purgative, it is contraindicated in pregnancy.
And I still don't know what it has to do with horse's teeth.
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