Sanguisorba
Root
(di yu)
Radix
Sanguisorbae
Properties:
The herb is bitter and sour in flavour, slightly cold in
nature, and acts on the liver, stomach and large intestine
channels. Being slightly cold for clearing heat and sour
for astringency, it is mainly used for cooling blood to
stop bleeding by astringency. Being bitter and cold for
sinking and lowering, and mainly acting on the lower jiao,
the herb is indicated for many kinds of bleeding due to
blood-heat, and particularly more often used to treat
hemorrhoidal bleeding and hemafecia.
Effects:
Clearing heat from blood to stop bleeding, poison
antidotal and astringing for skin sore.
Indications:
1. The herb is
often used in combination with sophora fruit, scutellaria
root and other herbs for clearing the bowels an cooling
blood to stop bleeding, such as Huaijiao Pill, to treat
hemafecia and hemorrhoidal bleeding due to excessive heat
in the large intestine; and with dried rehmannia root,
scutellaria root, cat-tail pollen, moutan bark and other
herbs for cooling blood to stop bleeding, to treat
metrorrhagia and metrostaxis due to blood-heat.
2. To treat
carbuncle, septicemic sore, damp sore and eczema, the herb
powder can be mixed with water for external application,
or decocted for external lotion. To treat scald and burn,
the herb with rhubarb, borneol, Chinese angelica root,
sesame oil and other medicines can be made into ointment
for external application.
In addition, the
herb can also be used to treat dysentery due to damp-heat.
Dosage and
Administration: 10-15g. An
appropriate amount for external application.
Precautions:
The herb should not be applied externally to large areas
burns in order to prevent from toxic hepatitis caused by
the absorption of hydrolytic tannin contained in the herb.
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