Chingma Abutilon Seed

Traditional Use

Primary Actions

• Clears heat and drains dampness - Qing Ma Zi is used for damp-heat disorders of the lower burner, especially painful or difficult urination and intestinal irritation with toxic-heat features.
• Resolves toxicity - traditional indications include carbuncles, boils, and purulent or bloody dysenteric presentations in which heat and toxin are prominent.
• Benefits the urinary tract - regional and materia-medica use connects the seed with painful strangury, damp obstruction, and urinary discomfort rather than general tonic urination.
• Removes nebula - older eye-disease terminology associates the seed with cloudy visual obstruction or superficial opacity, so it appears in a small niche of traditional ophthalmic use.

Secondary Actions

• Qing Ma Zi is sometimes confused with Dong Kui Zi or other mallow-family seeds in trade and in older secondary sources, so botanical identity matters when interpreting the literature.
• Compared with better-known damp-draining seeds, Qing Ma Zi is a relatively obscure medicinal and is best used conservatively when the source material is clearly authenticated.

Classic Formulas

• Qing Ma Zi with Che Qian Zi and Qu Mai - lower-burner damp-heat pairing logic for painful urinary difficulty and heat strangury.
• Qing Ma Zi with Pu Gong Ying and other heat-toxin-clearing herbs - traditional toxic-swelling strategy for boils, carbuncles, and purulent inflammatory lesions.
• Qing Ma Zi with eye-clearing herbs such as Qing Xiang Zi - older ophthalmic pairing logic for nebula or cloudy superficial visual obstruction.

Classical References

• The Hong Kong Department of Health identification monograph for Semen Abutili describes the seed as bitter and neutral, entering the Large Intestine, Small Intestine, and Bladder meridians, with actions of clearing heat, removing toxins, draining dampness, and removing nebula.
• The same official source lists representative indications including dysentery with bloody purulent stools, urinary infection with painful difficult urination, carbuncles and boils, and nebula.
• Traditional lists and regional herb references treat Qing Ma Zi as a comparatively uncommon strangury-relieving and detoxifying seed rather than a major everyday materia-medica item.