[Variety Source]
This product is the whole plant of Agrimonia pilosa (Agrimonia pilosa Ledeb.), a perennial herbaceous plant of the Rosaceae family. It is found in most parts of the country. It is harvested in summer and autumn when the stems and leaves are luxuriant, impurities are removed, dried, and cut into sections for raw use.
[Property]
bitter and astrigent, neutral. act on lung, liver and spleen channels.
[Efficacy]
Astringent and hemostasis, replenishing deficiency, eliminating accumulation, stopping dysentery, killing worms.
[Indications]
- It is used for various hemorrhagic syndromes such as hemoptysis, hematemesis, epistaxis, bloody stool, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis. This herb is astringent in taste and neutral in nature. It has astringent and hemostatic effects and can be used regardless of whether it is hot or cold. For those with blood heat, use it with blood-cooling hemostatic; for those with deficiency-cold bleeding, use it with tonifying qi and controlling blood and meridian-warming hemostatic.
- For diarrhea. This product can not only reduce astringency, stop diarrhea and hemorrhage, but also eliminate accumulation and stop dysentery, replenish deficiency and strengthen the spleen. Therefore, it is especially suitable for blood dysentery and diarrhea due to long-term illness, especially for infantile malnutrition with accumulation. It can be used alone or in combination with other medicinals.
- It is used for symptoms of fatigue due to fatigue, lack of strength, and complexion shallow yellow. This product has the effect of replenishing deficiency and strengthening the body, and can be used together with Chinese Date.
- In addition, this product is also used for sores, boils and carbuncles, with the effect of removing toxin and dispersing swelling. In recent years, it is also used for trichomonal vaginal inflammation, with the effect of killing worms and stopping itching; it is also used to treat cancer and swelling. Pancytopenia, etc.
[Documentation]
- Diannan Bencao: "Treat women's menstruation before or after, red leucorrhea, cold face, abdominal pain, redness, whiteness and blood dysentery over time."
- Bencao Gangmu Shiyi cited Ge Zufang: "eliminating retained food, dispersing fullness, lowering qi, treating various hematemesis diseases, regurgitation, dysphagia, malaria, pharyngitis, flash frustration, bloody defecation, bleeding, dysentery, food accumulation, jaundice to treat swellingYongju, lung abscess, acute mastitis, hemorrhoids."
[Usage and Dosage]
30~50 grams. Grind into powder and swallow. Once a day, take it on an empty stomach in the morning. Not suitable for decoction, the active ingredients are almost insoluble in water.
[Modern Pharmacology]
This product contains hairyvein agrimonia herb element, hairyvein agrimonia herb phenol, hairyvein agrimonia herb lactone, hairyvein agrimonia herb alcohol, tannin and volatile oil, vitamin C, K, etc. Hairyvein agrimonia herb was reported to have a procoagulant effect in the early days, and has been recently reported to have an anticoagulant effect; it has antibacterial and anti-vagina trichomonas effects, has killing effects on tapeworms, roundworms, and schistosomiasis, and has antimalarial effects; and has inhibitory effects on cancer cells. ; Can adjust heart rate, lower blood sugar and other effects.