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 Sophorae, Fl


Pin Yin: huai huami
Common name: pagodatree flower
Botanical family: Leguminosae
Botanical name: Sophora japonica L.

Primary action: Stop Bleeding
Secondary actions: Cool Blood
Temperature: cool
Taste: bitter
Entering Channel: Lv, LI

Actions:
   Cools Bloods and stops bleeding; especially used for Damp Heat dysentery with bleeding, bleeding hemorrhoids; also for nosebleed, coughing up of blood, uterine bleeding.
   Cools the Liver and benefits eyes; used for red eyes and hypertension associated with Liver Fire.
   (See Blood Heat; Liver Fire .)

 

Dosage: 2-5 qian.

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