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Pin Yin: fu long gan-; zao xintu
Common name: ashes at bottom of cooking stove where Rx Lithospermi (zi cao) has been burned; contains silicic acid, aluminum oxide, ferric oxide
Botanical family: (mineral)
Primary action: Stop Bleeding
Secondary actions:
Warm Interior
Temperature: warm
Taste: acrid
Entering Channel: Sp, St
Actions:
Warms the Blood and stops bleeding; used for Vacuity Cold disharmonies with bleeding, especially of stomach and intestines.
Warms the Stomach and stops vomiting; used for Stomach Cold type vomiting and for morning sickness during pregnancy.
(See
Spleen unable to govern Blood;
Stomach Vacuity Cold;
Counterflow Qi
.)
Dosage:
5-20 qian.
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