Cat-Tail
Pollen (pu huang)
Pollen
Typhae
Properties:
The herb is sweet in flavous, neutral in nature, and acts
on the liver and pericardium channels. Being sweet for
mildness, neutral for not drastic effect, and acting on
the blood in the heart and liver, the unprepared herb can
remove blood stasis, and stop bleeding without retaining
blood stasis, and the stirbaked herb is good at stopping
bleeding by astringency. The herb can be used to treat
various kinds of internal and external bleeding due to
clod or heat of deficiency or excess type. With its effect
of inducing diuresis, the herb is particularly good at
treating stranguria with blood and hematuria. With its
effect of relieving blood stasis and alleviating pain, the
herb is also used to alleviate pains due to blood stasis.
Effects: Relieving
blood stasis, stopping bleeding, treating stranguria and
aleviating pain.
Indication:
1. For haematemesis, hematuria, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis and many other
kinds of bleeding, the herb can be used in combination
with herbs for clearing heart from blood to stop bleeding,
to treat bleeding due to blood-heart; with herbs for
warming the channels to stop bleeding, to treat bleeding
due to cold of deficiency type; and with notoginseng,
rubia root and other herbs for relieving blood stasis to
stop bleeding, to treat bleeding due to blood stasis. The
herb is particularly good at treating stranguria with
blood and hematuria when used in combination with dried
rehmannia root, field thistle, capejasmine, fiveleaf
akebia and other diuretic herbs to treat stranguria and
clear heat from blood to stop bleeding.
2. The herb is
often used in combination with trogopterus dung for
strengthening the effect of relieving blood stasis and
alleviating pain, such as Shixiao Powder, to treat
women¡¯s dysmenorrhea due tom blood stasis, and abdominal
pain due to the obstruction and blood stasis after
childbirth; and with chuanxiong rhizome, corydalis tuber,
Chinese angelica root, notoginseng and other herbs for
relieving blood stasis and alleviating pain, to treat
pains due to blood stasis in the chest and abdomen.
Dosage and
Administration: 5-10g.
Wrapped in gauze and decocted.
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