Properties: SWEET – COLD Dosage: 9 – 24g.
Wolly Grass Root
Meridian: LUNG, STOMACH, SMALL INTESTINE, BLADDER
cool blood, stop bleeding due to reckless movement of hot blood
-blood in Urine, promote urination
-cough with blood, clear heat from stomach & lungs
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Properties: BITTER, SWEET – COOL Dosage: 3 – 15g.
Bletilla Rhizome Meridian: LUNG, STOMACH, LIVER
-stops bleeding from lungs & stomach – vomit/cough blood
-reduces swelling & generates flesh – topically for sores/chap-skin/ulcer
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Properties: PUNGENT – WARM Dosage: 15 – 60g.
Yellow Earth Meridian: SPLEEN, STOMACH
Ashes -warms blood – stops bleeding due to deficient cold in stomach
-warms stomach – stops vomiting
- spleen Qi deficiency – diarrhea
Properties: BITTER – NEUTRAL Dosage: 1.5 – 9g.
Charred Human Meridian: HEART, LIVER, KIDNEY
Hair -stop bleeding – uterine bleeding – many types
-promote urination – xue lin
Properties: SWEET, ASTRINGENT – NEUTRAL Dosage: 9 – 15g.
Lotus Rhizome Nodes Meridian LUNG, STOMACH, LIVER FRESH 30 – 60g.
-stop bleeding, beaks up blood stasis, lung and stomach heat – vomiting blood, coughing blood
Properties: BITTER, ASTRINGENT – COOL Dosage: 6 – 15g.
Biota Leaves Meridian HEART, LIVER, LARGE INTESTINE
-cool blood, stop bleeding – vomiting blood, bleeding gums, coughing blood, blood in stool or urine, uterine bleeding
-stop cough, lung heat – cough with phlegm, thick bloody sputum
-promotes healing of burns – topically for early stages
Properties: SWEET, PUNGENT – NEUTRAL Dosage: 4.5 – 12g.
Cattail Pollen Meridian LIVER, HEART, SPLEEN
(Bulrush) -stop bleeding – external and internal – traumatic injury, uterine bleeding, vomiting blood, nosebleed, coughing blood, blood in urine or stool
-invigorate blood, dispel stasis – chest pain, postpartum abdominal pain, dysmenorrhea
Properties: SWEET – COOL Dosage: 4.5 – 15g.
Japanese Meridian: LIVER, SPLEEN FRESH – 30-60g.
Thistle -cools blood, stop bleeding due to reckless movement of hot blood
-reduce swelling, generates flesh –topically for carbuncles/sores
Properties: SWEET – COOL Dosage:4.5 – 15g.
Small Thistle Meridian LIVER, SPLEEN
-stops bleeding (weaker than Da Ji) – blood in urine
Properties: SWEET – COLD Dosage: 9 – 24g.
Wolly Grass Meridian: LUNG, STOMACH, SMALL INTESTINE, BLADDER
Root -cool blood, stop bleeding due to reckless movement of hot blood
-blood in Urine, promote urination
-cough with blood, clear heat from stomach & lungs
Properties: BITTER – COLD Dosage: 6 – 9g.
Rubia Root Meridian: HEART, LIVER
-cool blood to stop bleeding
-invigorates blood to dispel blood stasis
-chronic skin rash – eczema
Properties: BITTER – COOL Dosage: 6 – 15g.
Pagoda Tree Bud Meridian: LIVER, LARGE INTESTINE
-cools blood, stop bleeding – damp heat in large intestine – dysentery, Hemorrhoids
-soothes liver fire – red eyes – dizziness
Properties: BITTER, SOUR – COOL Dosage: 6 – 15g.
Bloodwort Root Meridian LIVER, LARGE INTESTINE, STOMACH
-cools blood, stop lower jiao bleeding – blood in stool, bleeding hemorrhoids, vomiting blood, uterine bleeding
-clear heat, generate flesh – topically on sores, ulcers, burns
Properties: BITTER, SWEET – COOL Dosage: 3 – 15g.
Bletilla Rhizome Meridian: LUNG, STOMACH, LIVER
-stops bleeding from lungs & stomach – vomit/cough blood
-reduces swelling & generates flesh – topically for sores/chap-skin/ulcer
Properties: BITTER, PUNGENT – NEUTRAL Dosage: 9 – 15g
Agrimony Grass Meridian: LUNG, LIVER, SPLEEN FRESH – 15-30g.
-stop bleeding due to cold/hot/excess/deficient
-alleviate diarrhea/dysentery
-kills parasites
Properties: BITTER, PUNGENT – WARM Dosage: 3 – 9g.
Mugwort Leaf Meridian: SPLEEN, LIVER, KIDNEY
(MOXA) -stop bleeding – prolonged uterine bleeding due to deficient cold
-warms womb – restless fetus –possible miscarriage due to bleeding
-lower abdomen cold pain
Properties: SWEET, BITTER – WARM Dosage: 1 – 3g.
Pseudoginseng Root
Meridian: LIVER, STOMACH, LARGE INTESTINE
-stop bleeding – transform blood stasis – int. & ext. bleeding
-can stop bleeding without causing blood stasis
-traumatic injuries – alleviate pain, reduce swelling