This product is the whole herb of the perennial herbaceous plant Agrimonia pilosa (Agrimonia pilosa Ledeb.) of the Rosaceae family. It is found in most regions of the country and is harvested during the summer and autumn when the stems and leaves are lush. After removing impurities, it is dried in the sun and cut into segments for use.

bubble_chart Properties and Meridians

Bitter and astrigent, neutral. Act on lung, liver and spleen meridians.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Converge to stop bleeding, tonify deficiency, eliminate stagnation, stop dysentery, kill worms.

bubble_chart Indications

1. Used for various hemorrhagic syndromes such as hemoptysis, hematemesis, epistaxis, bloody stool, menorrhagia, and metrostaxis. This herb has an astringent and neutral nature, with the effect of astringing and stopping bleeding, and can be used regardless of whether the condition is hot or cold. For those with blood heat, it is used in combination with blood-cooling hemostatic agents; for those with deficiency-cold bleeding, it is used in combination with tonifying qi and controlling blood, and meridian-warming hemostatic agents.
2. Used for diarrhea and dysentery. This herb can not only astringe and stop diarrhea and bleeding, but also eliminate stagnation and stop dysentery, tonify deficiency, and strengthen the spleen. It is especially suitable for bloody dysentery, chronic diarrhea and dysentery, and infantile malnutrition with accumulation in children. It can be used alone or in combination with other medicinals according to the syndrome.
3. Used for symptoms of overexertion, fatigue, lack of strength, and shallow yellow complexion. This herb has the effect of tonifying deficiency and strengthening the body, and can be used in combination with Chinese Date.
4. In addition, this herb is also used for sores, boils, and abscesses, with the effect of removing toxin and dispersing swelling. In recent years, it has also been used for trichomonal vaginitis, with the effect of killing worms and stopping itching; it is also used to treat cancer and pancytopenia.

bubble_chart Documentation

1. Diannan Bencao: "For treating women's irregular menstruation, either early or late, red leucorrhea, cold face, abdominal pain, and long-term red and white dysentery."
2. Bencao Gangmu Shiyi quotes Ge Zu Fang: "To eliminate retained food, disperse abdominal fullness, lower qi, treat various diseases such as hematemesis, regurgitation, dysphagia, malaria, pharyngitis, sprains, bloody defecation, hemorrhoids, food accumulation, jaundice, abscesses, lung abscess, acute mastitis, and hemorrhoidal swelling."

bubble_chart Usage and Dosage

30-50 grams. Grind into powder and take orally. Once daily, taken on an empty stomach in the morning. Not suitable for decoction, as the active ingredients are almost insoluble in water.

bubble_chart Modern Pharmacology

This product contains agrimonin, agrimonolide, agrimonol, agrimonolide, tannins, volatile oils, vitamin C, K, etc. Early reports suggested that agrimonin has a procoagulant effect, but recent reports indicate it has anticoagulant properties; it has antibacterial and anti-trichomonal effects, is effective against tapeworms, roundworms, and schistosomes, and has antimalarial properties; it inhibits cancer cells; and it can regulate heart rate and lower blood sugar levels.