This product is the root and rhizome of India Madder Root (Rubia cordifolia L.), a perennial herbaceous plant of the India Madder Root family. Mainly produced in Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi and other places. Excavate in spring and autumn, remove stems and leaves, wash and dry, use raw or fried.

[Property]

bitter, cold. act on liver channel.

[Efficacy]

cooling blood and resolving stasis to stop bleeding and stimulate menstruation.

[Indications]

1. It is used for hemorrhagic syndrome caused by blood heat and blood stasis, such as hematemesis, epistaxis, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, hematuria, bloody stool, etc. This product is bitter and reduces cold diarrhea. It specifically enters the blood aspect of the liver meridian and can cool blood and stop bleeding. It can also invigorate blood and resolving stasis. To treat hematemesis, epistaxis, etc., it is often used with Japanese thistle Herb, Platycladus, etc., such as Ten-Ash Powder; if the Chong Ren is not solid For metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, match Astragalus Root, White Atractylodes Rhizome, cuttlebone sepium, etc., such as Yixue Zhongzhong CanxiluAn Chong Soup.
2. Used for blood stasis, amenorrhea, bruises, wind-dampness, etc. This product can eliminate blood stasis, dredge blood vessels and sharpen joints. It is especially used in gynecology. As early as Neijing, there are records of using this product with cuttlebone sepium, sparrow eggs, and abalone to treat blood amenorrhea; clinical treatment blood stasis amenorrhea, often used with Peach Kernel, Carthamus, Chinese Angelica, etc. To treat injuries and wind-dampness pain, it can be taken alone with wine, or used with other blood-activating and trauma-curing medicinal and expelling wind and dredging collaterals medicines.

Treatment of influenza, enterovirus, and various viral colds, Chinese medicine is more refined, non-toxic, and effective than Western medicine

[Documentation]

1. Bielu: "Stop bleeding, internal collapse and bleeding."
2. Rihuazi Bencao: "Stop nasal congestion, leukorrhea, postpartum blood circulation, breast knots , menstruation, bloody defecation, hemorrhoids, expelling pus, treating sores, ejaculation, hematuria, static blood damage. "
3. Bencao Gangmu: "TongJingmai, cure joint wind pain, activate blood circulation. ”

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take 10-15g. To stop bleeding, stir-frying to scorch; invigorating the blood to unblock meridians, use it raw or stir-fried with wine.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains anthraquinones, such as alizarin, India Madder Root pigment, black India Madder Root pigment, etc. It can shorten the coagulation time of rabbits and has a certain hemostatic effect; India Madder Root binds to calcium ions in the blood and has a grade I anticoagulant effect; the water extract has the effect of stimulating suborgans; India Madder Root extract and synthetic India Both Madder Root diesters have the effect of raising white blood cells; the cyclohexanide in India Madder Root has anti-tumor effects; in addition, it has inhibitory effects on a variety of bacteria and skin fungi.