ancient wisdom Β· Herb
Field Thistle Herb
Field Thistle Herb. Class: Blood-Cooling Hemostatic Medicinal. Properties: Sweet; Bitter; Cool. Meridians: Heart; Liver
πΏ Names
Pinyin Name
Xiao Ji
δΈζε (Chinese)
ε°θ
Latin Name
Cirsii Herba; Herba Cirsii
English Name
Field Thistle Herb
Alias Names
η«θιεΊθειθεΊθθεΊεΏθιιθθθθζͺεθιηΊ’θ±εΊθ§θζ¨εΊθΎεΊζθεΊεΊθ½εΊζθθ θ ζ―ε°ζΆιΈ‘ε©εΊθεε°θε§εΊεΏθηζ³εΊεΊε°ε€΄θε°εΊη
β― TCM Properties
Properties (ζ§ε³)
Sweet; Bitter; Cool
Meridians (ε½η»)
Heart; Liver
Part Used
Whole herb or root
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Blood-Cooling Hemostatic Medicinal
εζεη±» (CN)
εθ‘ζ’θ‘θ―
π©Ί Clinical Profile
Function (εθ½)
To arrest bleeding by reducing heat in blood, and to remove blood stasis and induce the subsidence of swelling.
Indication (δΈ»ζ²»)
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.
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