This product is the node of the rhizome of lotus, a perennial aquatic plant of the Nymphaeaceae family. Available in most areas of the country. Mainly produced in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei and other places. When digging lotus rhizome nodes in autumn and winter, cut off the nodes, wash them and dry them in the sun.

[Property]

sweet and astrigent, cool. act on heart, liver and stomach channels.

[Efficacy]

Convergence and hemostasis.

[Indications]

Used for various types of bleeding, such as hematemesis, hemoptysis, epistaxis, bloody stool, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, etc. This herb has an astringent taste, can astringe and stop bleeding, and has little effect on removing blood stasis. Especially useful for hematemesis and hemoptysis. The fresh product is cool in nature, suitable for those with heat in the blood; the stir-frying to scorch is flat and astringent in nature, and has more astringent and hemostatic effects. However, this product has little potency and is often used as an adjunct to other medicines in compound formulas.

1. Yaoxing Lun: "Pounding juice can stop hematemesis."
2. Bencao Gangmu: "It can stop hematemesis, spitting blood, blood stranguria, and drowning." Blood, hemorrhage, dysentery, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis."

[Usage and Dosage]

10~15 grams. Decoct and take.

[Processing and Storage]

Used raw or stir-frying to scorch.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product mainly contains tannins, Asparagus Root, starch, etc. Can shorten the clotting time.