Small tree Senecio scandens is as high as 12m. The trunk and branchlets are white gray or yellow gray with a slight luster. The branches of that year were green, with a blunt triangle in cross section and a nearly arc-shaped bottom. As a condiment, Senecio scandens can remove fishy smell and enhance fragrance.

The root and leaves of Senecio scandens can be use as herbs. It tastes slightly spicy and bitter. Warm nature, once said, has little toxicity, and has the functions of dredging channels and collaterals, promoting qi circulation, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, relieving pain, relieving convulsion, reducing swelling and detoxifying. Treat common cold, headache, stomachache, toothache, rheumatic osteodynia, traumatic swelling and pain.

Senecio scandens (edible value) _ Baidu Encyclopedia