The taste of artichoke and artichoke are both sweet and bitter, and their properties are both cool, both belonging to the heart and liver meridians, which can cool the blood and stop bleeding (making the blood cool and moist, preventing bleeding), and detoxify and eliminate blood stasis and carbuncles (promoting stasis and carbuncle poison to dissipate), and are often used in conjunction with each other in the treatment of heat-poisoned carbuncles, swellings, and hemorrhagic conditions such as heat and blood. Artichoke is stronger in detoxifying and dissipating blood stasis, but artichoke is also diuretic, so artichoke is mostly used in the treatment of heat-poisoned carbuncles and swellings, while artichoke is mostly used in the treatment of blood in urine. Artichoke is more powerful in detoxifying fire (to get rid of fire and poison in the body), dispersing blood stasis and eliminating carbuncles (to promote the dissipation of blood stasis and carbuncle poison), and can be used for both internal and external carbuncles and swellings, and is especially good for those with blood-heat and toxin abundance. Xiao Ji is also diuretic and diaphoretic (improves the problem of incomplete urination and small amount of urine), so it is especially good for treating blood in urine and hemorrhagic drenching (the appearance of blood in urine and accompanied by a sense of pain), and is often used with Radix et Rhizoma Sheng Di, Gardenia jasminoides, and Mutong, such as Xiao Ji Drinking Zi. Artichoke and artichoke are forbidden for people with deficiency cold bleeding and cold spleen and stomach (spleen and stomach are weak and cold). The use of drugs is recommended under the guidance of a doctor, and should not be used blindly on its own.