[Nature and flavor and meridians entered] Sweet, slightly bitter, warm; enters the liver and stomach meridians.
 【Function】Stop bleeding, disperse blood stasis, reduce swelling and relieve pain.
 [Indications] Vomiting blood, coughing up blood, epistaxis, bloody stool, bloody dysentery, metrorrhagia, abdominal masses, postpartum blood loss, retained lochia, blood stasis from falls, bleeding from trauma, and pain from carbuncles.
 【Efficacy and characteristics】It has significant effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, reducing swelling and relieving pain, and is known as "golden and incomparable" and "southern magic grass". Because it is often the same as the ginseng plant, and its effective active substances are higher and more than ginseng, it is also called "the king of ginseng" by modern Chinese medicine pharmacologists. The Qing Dynasty pharmaceutical work "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Ginseng is the best for replenishing qi, and Panax notoginseng is the best for replenishing blood. They have the same taste and the same effect, so it is called ginseng Panax notoginseng, which is the most precious among Chinese medicines." The famous Chinese patent medicines "Yunnan Baiyao" and "Pian Zai Huang" are made with Panax notoginseng as the main raw material. It is mainly used to treat hemoptysis, hematemesis, epistaxis, bloody stool, metrorrhagia, traumatic bleeding, chest and abdominal pain, and swelling and pain from falls.
 [Precautions] Pregnant women should not take this medicine, and children should use it with caution.
 【Medical records】
 "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Stop bleeding, disperse blood, and relieve pain. For wounds caused by swords, arrows, falls, bruises, and cane sores, which do not stop bleeding, chew it and apply it, or grind it into powder and mix it with the medicine, and the bleeding will stop. It also cures vomiting blood, nosebleed, bleeding, bloody diarrhea, metrorrhagia, continuous menstruation, postpartum blood retention, blood circulation, blood pain, red eyes, carbuncle, tiger bite, snake bite and other diseases."
 "Yujiu Yaojie" states: "It can harmonize the circulation of blood and stop bleeding, dredge the meridians and remove blood stasis, remove blood stasis and collect new blood. It can break up all blood stasis after childbirth, during menstruation, during falls, and in carbuncle; it can stop all new blood in cases of vomiting, epistaxis, metrorrhagia, knife wounds, and arrow shooting."
 "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: It specifically enters the liver and stomach. It also enters the heart and large intestine. It is also called mountain lacquer. Shizhen said: Some people say that it can cure alloy sores. It is like lacquer sticking to things.
 "Ben Cao Cong Xin": Disperses blood and relieves pain. Treats vomiting blood, nosebleed, bloody diarrhea, metrorrhagia, red eyes, carbuncle.
 "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica" says: Ginseng is the best for replenishing qi, and Panax notoginseng is the best for replenishing blood. They have the same taste and function, so they are called ginseng and Panax notoginseng, which are the most precious Chinese medicines.
 【Predecessors release medicine】
 "Compendium of Materia Medica": Panax notoginseng has only been introduced recently. It is used as an important medicine for wounds caused by metal blades and arrows. It is said to have miraculous effects. It is also said that for wounds caused by beatings and injuries, if the blood is stagnant and dripping, chew it and apply it to the wound to stop bleeding, and the bruises will disappear. It is also good for postpartum use. Generally speaking, this medicine has a warm, sweet and slightly bitter taste. It is a medicine for the blood of Yangming and Jueyin, so it can treat all blood diseases, similar to Qilinjie and Zikuan. ... Stop bleeding, disperse blood, and relieve pain. For wounds caused by metal blades and arrows, falls, beatings and wounds, if the bleeding does not stop, chew it and apply it, or grind it into powder and mix it with the wound to stop bleeding. It is also used to treat vomiting blood, epistaxis, bleeding, bloody diarrhea, metrorrhagia, continuous menstruation, postpartum blood retention, blood circulation, blood pain, red eyes, carbuncle, tiger bite, snake bite and other diseases.
 "New Compendium of Materia Medica": Panax notoginseng root is a magical medicine for stopping bleeding. No matter the upper, middle or lower blood, as long as there is bleeding outside, it is effective when used alone. It is even more magical when added to blood and qi tonic medicine. This medicine can replenish without the risk of boiling, and the tonic can have a quiet rest.
 "Compendium of Materia Medica": Panax notoginseng, the world only knows that it can relieve pain, but people don't know that pain is caused by blood stasis, and blood stasis is caused by blood dispersion. Panax notoginseng has a bitter and warm taste and can dissolve blood stasis.
 "Medical Records of Chinese and Western Medicine": Panax notoginseng, many scholars say that it is warm in nature, but no one feels warm when taking only a few coins of its powder. It is good at resolving blood stasis and stopping bleeding. It is an important medicine for vomiting and bleeding. After recovery, blood stasis will not remain in the meridians, and the symptoms will become asthenia (any medicine that uses strong blood stasis will always cause blood stasis in the meridians and blood stasis asthenia). It can also treat bleeding in the two stools, female uterine bleeding, dysentery with bright red blood that does not heal for a long time (it is suitable to be used together with Brucea brucea), rot in the intestines, ulcers, and the dysentery is purple and smelly, mixed with lipid membranes, which is the intestinal rot and piercing (Sanqi can transform rot and generate new blood, so it is used to treat it). Because it is good at resolving blood stasis, it is also good at treating female symptoms and menstrual disorders, resolving blood stasis without hurting new blood, and it is a wonderful product for regulating blood. It is good for external use to treat wounds. Applying its powder to the wound can stop bleeding and heal the pain immediately. If there is a bruise, and the internal organs and meridians are painful, it is especially effective to apply it externally or take it internally. For those who have just started to feel swelling and pain from sores, applying this medicine can relieve the pain (it should be mixed with equal parts of rhubarb powder and vinegar for application). For any sores where the poison is in the bones, Panax notoginseng can be used to push it out.
 "Yujiu Yaojie" says: It can harmonize the circulation of blood and stop bleeding, dredge the meridians and remove blood stasis, remove blood stasis and collect new blood. It can be used for postpartum, menstrual period, trauma, carbuncle, and all blood stasis can be broken; it can also be used for vomiting, epistaxis, metrorrhagia, knife wounds, and arrow shooting, and all new blood can be stopped.
 "Compendium of Materia Medica" says in "Jinshajiang Chronicles", Zhaoshen, that is, Panax notoginseng, is produced in Zhaotong Prefecture. It has thick and bright flesh, which is better than that produced in Guangdong. It is shaped like ginseng, and the oil is medium and ripe. "Bai Cao Jing" says that Panax notoginseng tastes slightly sweet, quite similar to ginseng, and it makes people salivate. When cut, the inside is asphalt-colored, and the outer skin is fine and green. Another kind produced in Zhaotong, Yunnan, can be confused with ginseng. It has no difference in color and taste, and the oil is ripe and transparent, but there is less radix, but the aftertaste is too sweet. Pen Yucheng says that in addition to Panax notoginseng, there are water Panax notoginseng, white angelica Panax notoginseng, and bamboo joint Panax notoginseng. Their shapes and effects have not been evaluated. According to Panax notoginseng, it is shaped like water chestnuts, with different points and roundness, green and yellow in color, with skin, sweet and bitter taste, and is very similar to ginseng, hence the name. Zhaoshen has no skin, is shaped like fingers, and there is no round or small one. Sometimes there are short and flat ones, which are also quite similar to Bletilla striata. The "Jinsha River Chronicles" records that it is Panax notoginseng, but this may not be correct.