Sophora
Flower (huai hua)
Flos
Sophorae
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Properties:
The herb is bitter in flavour, slightly cold in nature,
and acts on the liver, stomach and large intestine
channels. Being bitter and cold for clearing heat, sinking
and moving downward, the herb is good at clearing heat
from the liver and large intestine, and from blood to stop
bleeding, and cooling the liver to improve eyesight. It is
indicated for bleeding due to blood-heat, conjunctival
congestion due to liver-heat, hemafecia due to excessive
heat in the large intestine, and particularly for
hemorrhoidal bleeding.
Effects:
Clearing heat from blood to stop bleeding, and from the
liver to improve eyesight.
Indications:
1. The herb is
often used in combination with sanguisorba root, biota
tops, scutellaria root, trichosanthes fruit and other
herbs for cooling blood to stop bleeding, and loosing the
bowels to relieve constipation, to treat hemafecia and
hemorrhoidal bleeding due to excessive heat in the large
intestine; and with other herbs for cooling blood to stop
bleeding, to treat epistaxis, hemopysis, metrorrhagia and
metrostaxis due to blood-heat.
2. To treat the
liver-yang dizziness and the liver-fire headache, the herb
is often used in combination with abalone shell, hooked
uncaria, scutellaria root and chrysanthemum flower for
calming the liver-yang and clearing the liver-fire.
Dosage and
Administration: 10-15g.
Used stir-baked for stopping bleeding, and used raw for
calming the liver.
Appendix:
Sophora Fruit
It
is the ripe fruit of Chinese schlolartree. Being bitter in
taste and cold in nature, sophora fruit has similar
effects as sophora flower but weaker in stopping bleeding
and stronger in clearing heat and fire. With the effect of
loosing the bowels to relieve constipation, sophora fruit
is an important herb to treat hemorrhoidal bleeding. In
addition, it can also be used to treat headache,
conjunctival congestion and other symptoms due to
flaming-up of the liver-fire. Its dosage is 10-15g.
Pregnant women should be careful to use sophora fruit.
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