Qinjiao (Large-leaf Gentian Root) qín jiāo · 秦艽

Gentiana macrophylla (root; G. straminea, G. crassicaulis and G. dahurica are also cited)

Nature and flavour. Bitter, pungent, neutral; Stomach, Liver and Gallbladder systems.

Grouped with the herbs that dispel wind-damp and ease the pain of obstruction, and unusually for this category, with those that clear deficient heat and with those that promote bile flow to settle jaundice. The four gentians named above are the plants the modern pharmacopoeia accepts under this name, which is worth stating because gentians of many other species are sold in Europe under the same genus name. The traditional uses are categories recorded in the literature; they are not established by modern research.