Excerpted from Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed

• Clears heat, resolves toxicity, invigorates the blood, and reduces swellings:  for furuncles, sores and abscesses, as well as snakebite and trauma.  Promotes movement and disperses in the course of healing.*
• Recently used in treating various types of cancer and chronic hepatitis.*
• Promotes urination and reduces edema:  for edema from such problems as damp-heat or the ascites of criihosis.*
• Mildly dispels blood stasis and stops bleeding:  for trauma, vomiting blood, nosebleeds, or painful bloody urinary dribbling.*

Ban Zhi Lian - Scutellaria Barbata Herba