Notoginseng
(san qi)
Radix
Notoginseng
Properties:
The
herb is sweet and slightly bitter in flavour, slightly
warm in nature, and acts on the heart, liver and spleen
channels. Being sweet for mildness, warm for clearing, it
acts heart and liver channels and blood division for
resolving blood stasis and improving blood circulation.
When the stasis is resolved and the blood returned back
to the vessels, the bleeding without retaining blood
stasis, it is an important herb to stop bleeding and
alleviate pain. The herb is often used to treat various
kinds of bleeding and pains due to blood stasis.
Effects:
Resolving blood stasis, stopping bleeding, promoting blood
circulation and alleviating.
Indication:
1. The herb powder
can be orally taken, 2-3 times a day, 3g each time, to
treat haematemesis, hemafecia, metrorrhagia and
metrostaxis and other kinds of bleeding, with a better
effect for bleeding with blood stasis. To treat
haematemensis, hemafecia caused by ulcer of the digestive
tract, the herb can be used in combination with hyacinth
bletilla and cuttle bone.
2. To treat traumatic ecchymosis and swelling pain,
the herb can be orally taken or externally applied or used
in combination with other herbs for removing blood stasis
and alleviating pain. To treat obstruction of the heart
channel by blood stasis and colic due to obstruction
of Qi in the
chest, the herb is often used in combination with ginseng
for supplementing Qi, clearing the channels, removing
blood stasis and alleviating pain.
Dosage
and Administration: 1-3g.
The herb powder is orally taken in form of infusion with
hot boiled water.
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