Baical Skullcap Root is the dried root of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi (Fam. Labiatae).

Action: To remove damp-heat, to quench fire and counteract toxicity, to arrest bleeding and to prevent abortion.

Indications: Discomfort in the chest, nausea and vomiting in eidemic febrile diseases caused by damp-heat or summer-heat; feeling of stuffiness in the abdomen, acute dysentery of jaundice caused by damp-heat; cough due to heat in the lung; high fever with dire thirst; spitting of blood and epistaxis due to heat in blood; carbuncles and sores; threatened abortion.