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🌿 Herb

Shoulang Yam

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🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
Shu Liang
中文名 (Chinese)
薯莨
Latin Name
Rhizoma Dioscoreae Cirrhosae
English Name
Shoulang Yam
Alias Names
赭魁; 薯良; 鸡血莲; 血母; 朱砂七; 红药子; 金花果; 红孩儿; 孩儿血; 牛血莲; 染布薯
☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Bitter; Cool
Part Used
Tuber
🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
To quicken blood and stanch bleeding, rectify qi and relieve pain, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Indication (主治)
Coughing of blood, hemoptysis, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematuria, hematochezia, flooding and spotting [= metrorrhagia and metrostaxis], menstrual disorder [= menoxenia], dysmenorrhea, menstrual block, postpartum abdominal pain, distending pain in stomach duct and abdomen, sand distention and abdominal pain, heat toxin blood dysentery, water diarrhea, pain in joints, painful swelling from knocks and falls, sore and boil, zoster, bleeding due to external injury.
Toxicity
Slightly toxic
🔗 External References
TCMID
4681
TCM-ID
1972
🔍 Raw view — every non-empty column on this row (26 fields)
name
Shoulang Yam
chinese name
薯莨
pinyin name
Shu Liang
latin name
Rhizoma Dioscoreae Cirrhosae
english name
Shoulang Yam
properties english
Bitter; Cool
use part
Tuber
tcmid id
4681
herb id str
HERB005129
function text
To quicken blood and stanch bleeding, rectify qi and relieve pain, clear heat and resolve toxin.
indication
Coughing of blood, hemoptysis, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematuria, hematochezia, flooding and spotting [= metrorrhagia and metrostaxis], menstrual disorder [= menoxenia], dysmenorrhea, menstrual block, postpartum abdominal pain, distending pain in stomach duct and abdomen, sand distention and abdominal pain, heat toxin blood dysentery, water diarrhea, pain in joints, painful swelling from knocks and falls, sore and boil, zoster, bleeding due to external injury.
toxicity
Slightly toxic
tcm id id
1972
alias name
赭魁; 薯良; 鸡血莲; 血母; 朱砂七; 红药子; 金花果; 红孩儿; 孩儿血; 牛血莲; 染布薯
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