Lobelia, the name of traditional Chinese medicine. It is the dried whole plant of Lobelia Chinensis Lour.
Sex and taste: pungent, flat.
Meridian tropism: heart tropism, small intestine tropism and lung tropism.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxin, diuresis and detumescence.
Indications
It is used for carbuncle, sore, snake bite, swelling, edema, damp heat, jaundice, eczema and wet sore.

Function:

Lobelia, sweet, light, cold, return to the heart, small intestine, has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, diuresis and detumescence. It can treat sore swelling and poison, breast carbuncle swelling and pain, snakebite. This product is sweet, cold, heat clearing and detoxification, and can treat heat toxin syndrome. For the treatment of sore swelling and poison, only use this product for external application. For acute mastitis, use fresh Lobelia barbata for external application to treat snake bite. Lobelia barbata and Polygonum cuspidatum are used together. Lobelia has the effect of diuresis and detumescence. It can treat abdominal distension, edema, jaundice and oliguria. Lobelia chinensis is used in combination with Lysimachia christinae and rhubarb in the treatment of liver ascites and shortness of urine. If the edema, fatigue and shortness of breath caused by Yang deficiency of spleen and kidney last for a long time, it is forbidden to use this product alone. Now studies have found that Lobelia has anti-cancer effect, can be used with Prunella vulgaris, Hedyotis diffusa.