TCM: Listed under “Herbs that release the Exterior”, in “Warm, Acrid Herbs”, Schizonepeta tenuifolia, herb top flowering (jing jie) enters the Lung and Liver channels. Used for both Wind-Heat and Wind-Cold, it induces diaphoresis, regulates blood circulation and promotes eruption of rashes, vents rashes and alleviates itching and stops bleeding when carbonized.
General: It treats fever due to common cold, headache, swelling and pain of the throat, lockjaw, measles without full expression, uticaria due to contact with plants, carbuncles and sores and haematemesis, non-traumatic hemorrhaging and abnormal uterine bleeding when carbonized.