In the examinations of traditional Chinese medicine institutions, Chapter 16 of Traditional Chinese Medicine - Hemostatic Medicines involves many test points, and the knowledge points are scattered, unorganized and difficult to remember. However, this part is an examination. All test points will be tested. Therefore, experts from the Tianjin Health Talent Network will summarize the important test points related to the efficacy, clinical application and respective performance characteristics of the hemostatic drugs to facilitate your memory.

1. Thistle

①Efficacy: cooling blood to stop bleeding, dissipating blood stasis, detoxifying and eliminating carbuncle.

②Clinical application: blood heat syndrome, traumatic bleeding; carbuncle and sore.

③Characteristics: It is especially prone to upper bleeding and metrorrhagia due to heat in the liver menstruation in women.

2. Thistle

①Efficacy: cooling blood to stop bleeding, dissipating blood stasis, detoxifying and eliminating carbuncle, diuretic and treating stranguria.

②Clinical application: Blood-heat bleeding syndrome, traumatic bleeding; carbuncle and sore syndrome, treatment of initial swelling and pain of heat-toxic sores.

③Features: Good at treating hematuria and bloody stranguria.

3. Diyu

①Efficacy: cooling blood to stop bleeding, detoxifying and astringing sores.

②Clinical application: Blood-heat bleeding syndrome in the lower burner; water and fire burns, eczema, sores and carbuncles.

③Features: It is an essential medicine for treating burns and scalds; it should not be applied externally to patients with large area burns.

4. Sophora japonica

①Efficacy: cooling blood and stopping bleeding, clearing liver and purging fire.

②Clinical application: Various bleeding syndromes caused by blood heat; liver heat, red eyes, headache and dizziness.

③ Features: It is most suitable for blood in the stool and hemorrhoids caused by blood heat in the lower part.

5. Platycladus orientalis leaves

①Efficacy: cooling blood and stopping bleeding, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and growing black hair.

②Clinical application: blood-heat bleeding syndrome; lung-heat cough; blood-heat hair loss and premature graying of beard and hair.

③ Features: It can also astringe and stop bleeding, and is an important medicine for treating various bleeding syndromes.

6. Imperata Imperata

①Efficacy: cooling blood and stopping bleeding, clearing heat and diuresis, clearing lung and stomach heat.

②Clinical application: Blood heat and bleeding syndrome; febrile disease with polydipsia, lung heat cough, stomach heat vomiting; damp heat jaundice, edema, oliguria, hot stranguria and astringent pain.

7. Amaranth root

①Efficacy: cooling blood and stopping bleeding, anti-fetal, clearing away heat and detoxifying.

②Clinical application: blood heat and bleeding syndrome; fetal movement disturbance; carbuncle and sore.

③Features: An important medicine for preventing miscarriage.

Examples of hemostatic drugs that have the effect of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, and anti-fetus are:

A. Diyu

B. Sophora japonica

C. Imperata cogongrass root

D. Amaranth root

Answer D.