Imperata rhizome has the effects of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, clearing away heat and diuresis, and clearing lung and stomach heat. Indications: epistaxis due to blood heat, hemoptysis, hematuria, bloody stranguria, toxic stranguria due to heat, edema, damp-heat jaundice, vomiting due to stomach heat, cough and asthma due to lung heat, etc.
Madder has the effects of cooling blood, removing blood stasis, stopping bleeding and dredging menstruation. Indications are bleeding syndrome caused by blood heat, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, traumatic injury, rheumatism and arthralgia. Raw madder can clear away heat and cool blood, but it mainly promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis, and can stop bleeding, which has the functions of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, removing blood stasis and dredging menstruation. After charcoal frying, the coldness is weakened, and it has astringency, mainly to stop bleeding, and is used for various bleeding syndromes. Modern pharmacological experiments have proved that the hemostatic effect of madder charcoal is obviously better than that of raw products.
Platycladus orientalis leaves have the effects of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Indications are hematemesis, epistaxis, hematuria, bloody dysentery and other bleeding syndromes due to blood heat, cough due to lung heat, alopecia due to blood heat, premature graying of beard and hair, etc. Raw Platycladus orientalis is mainly used for cooling blood to stop bleeding, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough, and can also promote diuresis to stop leukorrhagia, dispel wind and relieve itching, dispel wind and remove dampness. It can be used for hematemesis, epistaxis, hemoptysis and cough and asthma caused by phlegm-heat resistance in lung, and can also be used for leukorrhagia, furuncle, furuncle, rheumatism and other pains caused by damp heat. Platycladus orientalis charcoal cold nature tends to be peaceful, and it is specialized in astringency and hemostasis, and is used for various bleeding syndromes.
Sanguisorba officinalis has the effects of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, detoxifying and healing sores. Indications: blood-heat hematochezia, hemorrhoid blood, metrorrhagia, scald caused by fire and water, eczema, sores and carbuncle, etc. Sanguisorba officinalis has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis to stop leukorrhagia, detoxifying and healing sores, and cooling blood to stop dysentery. It is used for damp-heat internal resistance, leucorrhea with reddish discharge, heat toxic ulcer, abdominal pain and diarrhea. The astringency of Sanguisorba officinalis charcoal is stronger than that of raw Sanguisorba officinalis, and it has the functions of cooling blood, astringing and stopping bleeding, diuresis and stranguria, and can be used for blood under intestinal wind, stranguria in urine, urethral tingling, metrorrhagia, etc. It can also detoxify, heal sores and promote granulation, and can be used for scalding, eczema and skin ulceration.