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Field Thistle Herb

Field Thistle Herb. Class: Blood-Cooling Hemostatic Medicinal. Properties: Sweet; Bitter; Cool. Meridians: Heart; Liver

🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
Xiao Ji
中文名 (Chinese)
小蓟
Latin Name
Cirsii Herba; Herba Cirsii
English Name
Field Thistle Herb
Alias Names
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☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Sweet; Bitter; Cool
Meridians (归经)
Heart; Liver
Part Used
Whole herb or root
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Blood-Cooling Hemostatic Medicinal
功效分类 (CN)
凉血止血药
🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
To arrest bleeding by reducing heat in blood, and to remove blood stasis and induce the subsidence of swelling.
Indication (主治)
Coughing of blood, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematuria, blood strangury, hematochezia, blood dysentery, flooding and spotting, bleeding due to external injury, swelling toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess.
Clinical Manifestations
1. its decoction exerts a hypertensive effect, which may be synergetic by cocaine or ephedrine and antagonized by ergotoxine.2. vasoconstrictive and hemostatic.3. its decoction inhibits the growth of staphylococcus aureus.
🔗 External References
SymMap
438
TCMID
1801
TCMSP
438
TCM-ID
2297