Blood Charcoal, Chinese medicine. For human hair made of charcoal. Take the hair, remove impurities, alkaline water to wash away grease and dirt, clean water, sun drying, simmering calcined into charcoal, cool. Below, I would like to introduce you to the efficacy and role of blood Yu charcoal, welcome to read.

Effects and functions of blood residue charcoal:

Main components: containing charcoal.

Pharmacological effects: astringent hemostasis. Animal experiments have confirmed that it can shorten bleeding, clotting time and plasma recalcification time. Another diuretic effect.

Concoction: the original medicinal use.

Taste: bitter, slightly warm.

Meridian: into the heart, liver, kidney meridian.

Functions: Eliminating blood stasis, stopping bleeding.

Indications: hematemesis, epistaxis, dysentery, hemorrhagic drenching, metrorrhagia.

Clinical application: widely used in the treatment of various kinds of bleeding. However, it is more often used in the treatment of bleeding and vomiting of blood. For example, it can be used in treating excessive menstruation with charcoal of lotus seedling and leaves of cypress plus tonifying the middle and benefiting the vital energy, and in treating fire with charcoal of Angelica sinensis, Wu Wu, motherwort, etc., such as Blood and Motherwort Soup. This formula can also be used to treat vomiting of blood in the deficiency syndrome with additions and subtractions.

Note: This product is not suitable for those who have blood stasis and heat accumulation.

Dosage: Generally, it is powdered into a very fine powder and taken as 0.9-3 g. For decoction, it is used as 6-15 g.

Prescription example: Blood and Yuan Qui Mu Tang: 9 g of blood and Yuan Qui Mu Tang, 9 g of Angelica Sinensis charcoal, 15 g of Motherwort, 18 g of Radix et Rhizoma Sheng Di, 5 jujubes, and decocted in water.

Related combinations of Blood Yu Charcoal:

1. Used for the treatment of hemorrhagic drenching: often combined with Pu Huang, Radix et Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Radix et Rhizoma Glycyrrhizae, and taken in decoction with water, such as Blood Yu Charcoal San. (Chishui xuanzhu)

2, used for the treatment of urinary dyspepsia: often used with talc and white fish, such as talc and white fish scattered. (Jin Gui Yao Liao)