[Variety Source]

This product is the petiole of Windmill Palm (Trachycarpus fortunei H. Wendl.), a green plant of the Windmill Palm family. Mainly produced in East China, South China and Southwest China. When harvesting palm, cut off the lower part of the old petiole and sheath, remove the fibrous brown hair, dry it in the sun, and cut it into small pieces, preferably those that have been aged for a long time, and use them for calcining charcoal.

[Property]

bitter and astrigent, neutral. act on liver, lung and large intestine channels.

[Efficacy]

Convergence and hemostasis.

[Indications]

It is used for various hemorrhagic syndromes, such as hematemesis, epistaxis, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, bloody stool, hematuria, etc. It is especially used for metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, and is suitable for those without stasis. This product is bitter and can astringe and stop bleeding. To treat metrorrhagia and metrostaxis in women, it can be used alone, such as Furen Liangfang; it is also often used with Carbonized Human Hair, Platycladus and the like. . If it is hematemesis, epistaxis, or hemoptysis caused by blood heat, it should be paired with Small Thistle, mountain mast, etc., such as Ten-Ash Powder. If it is deficiency and excess cold bleeding, with metrorrhagia and metrostaxis bleeding that is not solid, then use Blast-Fried Ginger, Smoked Plum, such as Zhengzhi Zhunsheng prescription; clinically often used together with tonifying qi-solidifying products such as Astragalus Root, White Atractylodes Rhizome, cuttlebone sepium, etc. In addition, it can also be used for chronic diarrhea, leukorrhea and other syndromes, and its astringent effect is also used.

[Documentation]

1. Bencao Yanyi: "Burn into black ash to cure women's bleeding and hematemesis."
2. Bencao Gangmu: "If the loss of blood goes away If the blood stasis has been eliminated, it can be used appropriately. It is also used as astringent relieving collapse. It is more effective when used with unruly hair. It is especially useful as a medicine for long-term bleeding."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take 3~10g; grind into powder and take 1~1.5g.

[Precaution]

It should not be used due to stasis and bleeding.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains a lot of cellulose and tannins. The alcohol extract of Windmill Palm seed powder can shrink the uterine organs of mice and has a certain blood coagulation effect.

The seeds, roots and flowers of Windmill Palm are also used for medicinal purposes. All have astringent and hemostatic effects. In recent years, hemostatic pills made from the alcohol extract of Windmill Palm have been used to treat functional uterus bleeding, uterus fibroids, chronic cervicitis, artificial late abortion, post-circulation bleeding, etc., and have good hemostatic effects.