Description

Description:

irregular fusiform or cylindrical, slightly curved or twisted.5-25 Cm long.0.5-2 Cm in diameter. Externally grayish-brown, brown or dark purple, rough, with longitudinal wrinkles, transverse fissures and rootlet scars; texture hard, fracture relatively even, bark with numerous yellowish-white to yellowish-brown woolly fibres, wood yellow or yellowish-brown and approximately arranged radially. Slices irregularly rounded or elliptical. 2-5 Mm thick; cut surface purplish-red or brown. Odourless ;taste, slightly bitter and astringent.

action:

to arrest bleeding by dispelling heat from blood, and to counteract toxicity and cure sores.

indications:

hematochezia, hemorrhoidal blooding, bloody dysentery, abnormal uterine bleeding; scalds and burns; carbuncles, boils and sores.

referential advice:

1.Cooling blood to treat hematemesis, epistaxis, hematuria, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, etc.

it is often used in combination with radix rubiae. Nodus nelumbinis rhizomatis, etc. In treating hemafecia, hemorrhoid with bleeding, dysentery with blood, etc., The drug is often used in combination with rhizoma bletillae, etc.

2.Subduing swelling and relieving pain

this drug can be used to treat scald and burns. Since this drug has the effect of astringing blood and purging fire, it is an important drug for scald and burns. The crude drug is ground into powder, mixed with sesame oil and applied to the local area. This can reduce exudate, relieve pain and speed up healing. Alternatively, 30g of the drug, 30g of crude radix et rhizoma rhei and 1.5G of borneolum syntheicum are ground into powder, mixed with sesame oil and applied to the local area. In treating carbuncle and sores, the drug can be used in combination with flos lonicerae, herba taraxaci, etc..

tips:

the fresh root is pulverised, mixed with seame oil and applied to burns, prutituc and eczema.

chemicial component

1. Triterpene and their saponin:

ziyu-glycoside i, ii, 3-o-a-l-arabopyranosyl-28-o-ß-d-glucopyranosyl-pomolic ester, sanguisorbin a, b, e, l-arabinose, ursolic acid, ect.

2. Phenolic acid compound:

sanguiin h-1, h-2, h-3, methyl6-o-galloyl-ß-d-glucoside, 3-o-galloylprocyanidin, 3,3′,4-trio-methylellagic acid, ect. Among which sanguiin (dimeric ellagitannin) h-6 shows inhibiting effect on the activity of dna topoismerase, so it may have some anti cancer effect.

3. Flavonoid

kaempferol-3, 7-o-dirhamnoside, quercetin-3-galactoside-7-glucoside, hyperin

4. Others

sanguisorbic acid dilactone, ferulic acid, ß-sitosterol, daucosterol, gallicum

this statement has not been evaluated by the food and drug administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Always used this herb under instructions of a licensed herbalist.