Chuan Po Shi Root

Traditional Use

Primary Actions

• Dispels wind-damp and unblocks the channels ... Chuan Po Shi is a regional root medicine for rheumatic pain, lower-body soreness, and lingering obstruction with swelling or stiffness.
• Clears damp-heat and relieves jaundice ... southern folk use repeatedly places it in formulas for yellowing disorders, turbid damp accumulation, and heat lodged in the Liver-Gallbladder axis.
• Resolves toxicity and reduces swelling ... it is applied to boils, abscesses, and inflamed lesions when heat, toxin, and local stasis combine.
• Moves Blood and relieves traumatic pain ... the root appears in injury and fracture traditions where bruising, fixed pain, and collateral obstruction need a penetrating root rather than a gentle tonic.

Secondary Actions

• This page follows the local botanical-plate lane on accepted `Maclura tricuspidata`, but regional materia medica can also attach the Chuan Po Shi name to closely related Moraceae roots ... authentication matters.
• Compared with better-standardized national pharmacopoeia herbs, Chuan Po Shi remains a more regional Lingnan and folk-medicine root, so traditional claims should be framed conservatively.

Classic Formulas

• Regional jaundice and hepatitis decoctions with Yin Chen, Ji Gu Cao, or Tu Fu Ling ... common southern pairing logic when damp-heat and swelling dominate.
• Trauma and painful-obstruction combinations with Ji Xue Teng, Niu Xi, or Ru Xiang ... used when bruising, channel blockage, and rheumatic soreness overlap.
• Heat-toxin and swelling formulas with Pu Gong Ying or Jin Yin Hua ... a traditional extension of the root's detoxifying and swelling-reducing role.

Classical References

• Lingnan herb traditions classify Chuan Po Shi among roots that clear heat, dispel dampness, open the collaterals, and reduce painful swelling.
• Older regional herb descriptions also connect it with jaundice, traumatic injury, and stubborn rheumatic pain rather than with mainstream tonic use.