【Functions and Indications】Clears heat and detoxifies; soothes the liver and disperses stasis. Treats jaundice, hepatitis, stomach pain, mastitis, scrofula, and traumatic injuries with blood stasis pain.
① Nanning Materia Medica: "Reduces inflammation and detoxifies. Treats infectious hepatitis and bone fractures. Leaves: Pounded into a paste and applied to breast abscesses."
② Illustrated Compendium of Chinese Medicinal Plants: "Treats rheumatic bone pain and internal injuries from trauma with blood stasis; also serves as a cooling and fever-reducing agent."
③ Lingnan Materia Medica: "Clears stagnant heat, soothes the liver, harmonizes the spleen, and mends fractures."
④ Guangzhou Military Region's Handbook of Common Chinese Herbs: "Clears heat, drains dampness, soothes the liver, and relieves pain. Treats acute and chronic hepatitis, ascites from cirrhosis, stomach pain, painful urination, and snake bites."
【Pharmacological Effects】
Intraperitoneal injection of chrysanthemum alkaloids from chicken bone grass reduces inflammatory responses.
【Clinical Applications】
1. Treatment of jaundice-type hepatitis.
2. Treatment of chronic gastritis.
【Dosage and Administration】
Standard clinical dose: 10–30g.
High dose: 30–60g.
Administration: Decocted in water.
【Side Effects】
(1) Literature Records
Nanning Materia Medica: Non-toxic.
(2) Toxic Reactions
Chickenbone grass is non-toxic. No adverse reactions occur when decocted and taken orally at conventional doses. Long-term use or high doses (around 30g) decocted and taken orally also show no significant side effects.
【Dietary Therapy Effects】
Chicken Bone Grass tastes sweet with slight bitterness, has a cool nature, and enters the Liver, Gallbladder, and Stomach meridians.
It possesses effects of clearing heat, draining dampness, dispersing stasis, and relieving pain.
Main indications: jaundice-type hepatitis, painful urination, epigastric pain, rheumatic joint pain, traumatic bruising with swelling and pain, mastitis.【Chicken Bone Grass Preparation Guidelines】
1. The seeds are toxic; remove pods before use to prevent poisoning.
2. For jaundice: Decoct 60g chicken bone grass with 7-8 red dates. Drink the decoction.
3. For wind-heat exogenous pathogens: Decoct 60g chicken bone grass. Take twice daily.

4. For scrofula: Grind 3000g chickenbone grass and 2000g Xiecao into powder. Form into honey pills (3g each). Take 2 pills three times daily for 2-4 weeks.
5. For snake bites: Decoct 30g chickenbone grass (without pods) in water and drink.