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[Nature and flavor and meridians entered]: Bitter, sweet and astringent, cold in nature, entered the lung, liver and stomach meridians.

It has the functions of astringing, stopping bleeding, reducing swelling and promoting tissue regeneration. It is used for various symptoms of internal and external bleeding, carbuncle, burns, chapped hands and feet, anal fissure, etc.

【Functions and indications】: Astringent and hemostatic, detumescence and tissue regeneration. Used for coughing up blood, bleeding from trauma, swelling and infection in sores, chapped skin, hemoptysis caused by tuberculosis, and bleeding caused by ulcers.

[Dos and Don'ts]: Do not take this medicine if you have cough with blood due to exogenous infection, the initial stage of lung abscess, or if you have excess heat in the lungs and stomach.

【Medical records】

"Ben Jing": "It is used to treat carbuncle, malignant ulcer, gangrene, injury to yin and dead muscles, evil spirits in the stomach, typhoid fever and slow healing."

"Bie Lu": "It can eliminate white ringworm and scabies."

"Medicinal Properties": "It can treat heat accumulation that does not disappear, cure impotence under the genitals, treat blisters on the face, and make the skin smooth."

"Tang Materia Medica": "Chew and apply to chapped hands and feet."

"Rihuazi Materia Medica": "It can stop fright, blood evil, dysentery, red eyes, knots, back hair, scrofula, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids, knife and arrow sores, febrile malaria, bloody dysentery, boils and fire sores, promote tissue regeneration and relieve pain, and treat rheumatism."

"Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "It is often used in pre