This product is the dried whole herb of Creeping Euphorbia, a plant of the Peking Euphorbia Root family. It grows in wastelands, field edges, and roadsides, and is distributed throughout China and also found in Japan. It is an annual herb. Harvested in summer and autumn, it is cleaned of impurities and dried.

bubble_chart Properties and Meridians

Bitter and acrid, neutral. Act on liver, stomach and large intestine meridians.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Clearing heat and removing toxin, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.

bubble_chart Indications

1. is used for heat toxin dysentery, abscesses, and poisonous snake bites. This product can clear heat and remove toxins. For heat toxin dysentery with pus and blood in the stool, it can also stop bleeding. It can be used alone or in combination with Purslane Herb and other medicinal combinations to enhance the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins for treating dysentery. For heat toxin sores and poisonous snake bites, it is often used fresh, mashed, and applied externally.
2. It is used for bloody stool, hematuria, menorrhagia and metrostaxis, as well as traumatic bleeding and other hemorrhagic syndromes. This product can both stop bleeding and promote blood circulation, with the characteristic of stopping bleeding without leaving stasis. It has a certain therapeutic effect when used alone. For blood stasis bloody stool and hemorrhoid bleeding, it can also clear heat and remove toxins, treating dysentery and sores, and can be combined with Sanguisorba and other medicinal combinations. For hematuria and blood stranguria, this product can both stop bleeding and promote diuresis and relieve stranguria. It can be used with lalang grass rhizome, Small Thistle, and other medicines that are effective for treating hematuria. For menorrhagia and metrostaxis with bleeding, it can be used with India Madder Root and others. For traumatic swelling, pain, and bleeding, it can be used alone by grinding and applying externally.
3. In addition, it can also be used for dampness-heat jaundice and difficulty in urination. This product can drain dampness and reduce jaundice. It can be used alone or in combination with Virgate Wormwood, Gardenia, and other medicinal combinations.

bubble_chart Documentation

1. 《Jia You Materia Medica》: "Promotes blood circulation and can also treat qi."
2. Bencao Gangmu: "Treats abscesses, malignant sores, injuries from metal blades and blunt trauma with bleeding, blood stasis, and menorrhagia. It can disperse and stop bleeding, and promote urination."

bubble_chart Usage and Dosage

15-30 grams. Decoct for oral use. Apply an appropriate amount externally.

bubble_chart Modern Pharmacology

This product contains tannins, methyl ester of nutgallic acid, nutgallic acid, quercetin, inositol, etc. It has significant inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus albus, hemolytic streptococcus, catarrhalis coccus, diphtheria bacillus, large intestine bacillus, cold-damage disease bacillus, paracold-damage disease bacillus, dysentery bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, enteritis bacillus, and Salmonella choleraesuis. It can also significantly neutralize the exotoxin of diphtheria bacillus and inhibit Leptospira and influenza virus. When used locally as a powder, it has a hemostatic effect on experimental dog femoral artery incision bleeding.