Decoction, 6-15g; powdered and swallowed 3-6g. Appropriate amount for external use.

Medicinal use of this product for the orchid plant hyacinth tuber.

Taste and attribution bitter, sweet, astringent, slightly cold. It enters the liver, lung and stomach meridians.

Effects Astringent, stopping bleeding, subduing swelling and promoting muscle growth.

Clinical Application 1. Used for hemoptysis, vomiting blood, epistaxis, traumatic bleeding.

White hyacinth is astringent, function of hemostasis, is a hemostatic medicine. It can be used to treat hemoptysis with Colla Corii Asini (fried clam powder), lotus root joints, and Radix et Rhizoma Shengdi, etc. It can be used to treat vomiting of blood with Squid Bone, etc. It is also used to treat epistaxis and epistaxis.

Likes warm, shady and humid environment, such as wild valleys under the forest. Slightly cold, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River can be cultivated in the open ground. Strong shade tolerance, avoid direct light, summer heat and drought when the leaves are easy to yellow. It is suitable for well-drained sandy loam with much humus.

Often grows in the wetter stone wall, moss layer, often combined with shrubs, or grow in the forest edge, grass, there are springs of the place, also born in the altitude of 100-3200 meters under the broad-leaved evergreen forest, dongzhu forest or under the coniferous forests, in Beijing and Tianjin have cultivation. The rocks where hyacinth grows are sandstone type, so that hyacinth can absorb the water of the capillary, thus firmly sucked on it.

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