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【Nature and flavor】Sweet, bitter, cool.

【Return through Meridians】Returns to the Heart and Liver meridians.

[Effects] Cools blood and stops bleeding, disperses blood stasis, detoxifies, and eliminates carbuncle.

[Indications] Epistaxis, hematemesis, hematuria, hematuria, bloody stool, metrorrhagia, acute infectious hepatitis, traumatic bleeding, furuncle, and carbuncle.

【Medical records】

"Tang Materia Medica": Both big thistle and small thistle can break up blood, but big thistle can also treat carbuncle, while small thistle focuses on blood and cannot reduce swelling.

"Bencao Gangmu" says: Thistle has little effect and can only reduce fever, unlike great thistle which can nourish and relieve qi.

"Compendium of Materia Medica": Shen Zeshi said that besides treating blood and stopping bleeding, Erji has no other benefits and cannot benefit people. The saying of the predecessors that it can nourish essence and preserve blood, replenish deficiency and stimulate appetite should not be followed.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" states: The roots and leaves of both thistle and citronella are bitter, sweet and neutral in nature, and can both ascend and descend, break up blood and stop bleeding. Citronella is sweet and neutral, not too bitter, and is specifically used to reduce fever and relieve restlessness, clearing fire and allowing blood to return to the meridians. It is to preserve blood by cooling blood.

"Food Therapy Materia Medica": Take the vegetable and cook it to eliminate wind and heat. The root is used to treat metrorrhagia. It is also used to treat menstrual problems in women. Take half a liter of juice after pounding it. If bleeding from wounds does not stop, squeeze the leaves and seal them. If you feel hot in summer and feel restless, pound the leaves and take half a liter of juice.

"Bencao Shiyi" says: It can break up old blood, stop new bleeding, treat sudden bleeding, bloody dysentery ("dysentery" can also be written as "metrorrhagia"), bleeding from wounds, vomiting, etc. Squeeze the juice and drink it warm; decoct it and add sugar, and it is also good for taking it with wounds and spider, snake and scorpion venom.

"Rihuazi Materia Medica": Root, treats heat, toxic wind and chest discomfort, stimulates appetite, reduces fever, and replenishes deficiency. Seedling, removes fever, grinds raw juice and drinks.

"Compendium of Materia Medica": Pound the root and squeeze out the juice to drink to stop vomiting blood, nosebleed and bleeding.

"Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica": Clears heat, dissipates wind, and eliminates phlegm, and relieves all carbuncle, ulcer, and swelling.

《Classification of Herbal Properties》: Treats bloody swelling and pain, bruises, metrorrhagia, and leucorrhea.

"Common Chinese Herbal Medicines in Shanghai": Clears away heat, stops bleeding, lowers blood pressure, disperses blood stasis and reduces swelling. Treats various bleeding diseases, hypertension, jaundice, hepatitis, and nephritis.

【Predecessors release medicine】

"Medical Records of Chinese and Western Medicine": Fresh root of thistle is cool and moist, good at entering the blood, and can clear the heat of the blood. All patients with coughing up blood, vomiting blood, nosebleed, and blood in the stool caused by heat will be cured immediately after taking it. It is also good for treating tuberculosis of lung disease, and it is suitable for use at any stage, and it can also be effective when used alone. It can also treat all sores, swelling and pain, syphilis, stranguria, and painful bleeding. It can not only cool blood and stop bleeding, but also activate blood circulation and detoxify, so it has the above effects. Its cool and moist nature is also good at nourishing yin and blood, and treating blood deficiency and fever. As for women with uterine bleeding and red discharge, it is also effective if it is used for those caused by heat.

"Ben Cao Jing Shu" says: Tao said that the root of the burdock is poisonous, but this is a mistake. Women have red and white phlegm due to heat in the blood. The fetus is restless due to heat, and the blood heat flows out of the upper orifices, causing vomiting and bleeding. The root of the burdock is the best at cooling the blood. When the blood heat is relieved, all symptoms will heal. It is cool in nature and can move. When it moves, it nourishes. It nourishes and cools the blood, and the nourishing qi is harmonious. The harmony of the nourishing qi makes the woman fat and healthy.

"Compendium of Materia Medica": Big and small thistles are considered blood medicines, of course. For example, peach kernel and safflower are both said to promote blood circulation and break stagnation, but this flavor is said to stop vomiting blood, epistaxis, and bleeding in women during metrorrhagia, which seems to be effective in stopping bleeding. The small thistle can reduce fever and stop bleeding, and the big thistle can lower qi, which is a wonderful way to stop bleeding. The reason why qi cannot go down is mostly because yin cannot descend, which leads to hyperactivity of yang and cannot go down. When qi descends, blood returns to the meridians. Isn't this the meaning of qi first for blood? Those who cool blood are mostly stagnant, but this can promote it, and it does not promote it by lowering fire, but by lowering qi. That is, the root of small thistle is also said to nourish qi in "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica", but its power is inferior to that of big thistle. Therefore, those who promote blood circulation have no benefit, but this can protect it. In particular, the power of big thistle in nourishing is better than that of those who protect blood. This is what is called not stopping blood.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" states: Although the book states that large and small thistles are sweet and warm, and can nourish the essence and preserve the blood, the nourishment of the essence and the preservation of the blood depend on the blood flowing through the body without stagnation. If the blood stasis is not eliminated, it will lead to symptoms such as vomiting, nosebleeds, spitting, coughing, and metrorrhagia, and if the blood stagnation is not circulated, it will lead to carbuncle pain and swelling. If the essence and blood are not treated, how can it be maintained? This herb has a mild smell, warms without drying, and flows without dispersing. The stagnation will be eliminated by warming, and the blood clots will be relieved by flowing. Once the lochia is cleared, it will naturally have the ability to generate new blood, and the carbuncle will disappear, which will naturally have the effect of strengthening and benefiting. The meaning of maintenance comes from this, but does it really have the power of nourishing and benefiting?

"Ben Cao Zheng Yi" says: The main treatments of the two burdocks are to remove blood stasis downwards. "Bie Lu" says that the root of the burdock can stop vomiting blood and nosebleeds, because the downward movement is smooth and the upward vomiting and nosebleeds can be stopped. It is also said that it can stabilize the fetus, but the nature of removing blood stasis and removing stagnation is counterproductive, so it may not be followed. Zhen Quan said that it can treat bleeding, but it is not acceptable.

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