Chinese Gall is the gall produced mainly by parasitic aphids of Melaphis chinensis (Bell) Baker on the leaf of Rhus chinensis Mill. ,Rhus potaninii Maxim, or Rhus phunjabensis Stew. var. sinica (Diels) Rehd. et Wils. (Fam. Anacardiaceae). According to its form the drug is divided into "Dubei" and "Jiaobei".

Action: To remove heat from the lung, to arrest cough, diarrhea, excessive sweating, bleeding and exudation from, sores.

Indications: Cough and expectoration due to heat in the lung; chronic cough, chronic dysentery of diarrhea, night sweating, hematochezia, hemorrhoidal bleeding, traumatic bleeding, abscess, sores and skin lesions with exudation; diabetes.