The effects of Xianhe Cao are astringency and hemostasis (treating bleeding disorders with medicines that have astringent properties), interception of malaria, stopping dysentery, detoxification, and tonifying deficiency.
Xianhecao is the dried above-ground part of the Rosaceae plant Longhuacao, with a bitter, astringent flavor, flat nature, attributed to the heart, liver meridian.
With astringent flavor and strong astringent hemostatic effect, it can be used for all kinds of bleeding disorders, such as hemoptysis, vomiting blood, bleeding from leakage (excessive menstrual flow or more than a few drops of blood). Xianhe Cao has the effect of stopping malaria, dysentery, detoxification, can be used for malaria, dysentery, carbuncle sores and poison, itchy vagina. It also has the effect of replenishing the deficiency and strengthening the body, and can be used for the overwork caused by the labor injury.
The use of medication should be under the guidance of a doctor, not self-medication.