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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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