Japanese
Thistle (da ji)
Herba seu Radix Japonici
Properties:
The herb is sweet and bitter in flavour, cool in nature,
and acts on the heart and liver channels. Being sweet and
cool for clearing heat, and acting on blood for clearing
heart from blood to stop bleeding, the drug is indicated
for many kinds of bleeding due to blood-heat. Being for
purgating toxic substances and eliminating swelling, the
herb can be used to treat skin and external diseases due
to toxic heat.
Effects:
Clearing heat from blood to stop bleeding, and toxins
to eliminate swelling.
Indications:
1. To treat epistaxis, haematemesis,
hematuria, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, and many other
kinds of bleeding due to blood-heat, the herb is often
used in combination with capejasmine, rhubarb, field
thistle, cogongrass rhizome, rubia root and other herbs
for clearing heat from blood to stop bleeding, such as
Shihui Powder.2. To treat
skin and external diseases due to toxic heat, the fresh
herb can be pounded to take its juice for oral medication,
or mashed for external application, or used in combination
with dandelion herb, Chinese violet, honeysuckle flower
and other herbs for clearing heat and toxins.
In recent years, the herb is often
used to treat hepatitis, nephritis, hypertension and other
diseases.
Dosage and Administration:
10-16g.
30-60g for raw herb.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
