Tang Zonghai was a great Chinese medicine practitioner in the late Qing Dynasty, and his “Treatise on Blood Evidence”, which was written with 11 years of effort, is a benchmark for the treatment of blood evidence in Chinese medicine. Blood essence belongs to the category of blood evidence, and its treatment cannot be separated from the four principles of blood evidence treatment proposed by Tang Zonghai – stopping bleeding, eliminating blood stasis, nourishing blood, and tonifying blood.
1.Blood Sanguine
Also known as Mountain Patchouli, it is distributed in Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi and Yunnan. It is also found in Japan, Korea, India, and the Central and South China Peninsula to Indonesia and the Philippines. Lv Liguo, Department of Urology, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Taste: Bitter, slightly pungent, cool.
Effects: Cooling the blood, stopping bleeding, dispersing blood stasis and eliminating swelling. Used for epistaxis, blood in stool, dysmenorrhea, postpartum stasis of blood and abdominal pain, bruises, painful swelling and furuncles, and poisonous snake bites. Dosage 15-30 grams; for external use, decocted in water or freshly pounded and applied to the affected area.
Point: The principle of medicine for chronic vesiculitis is to stop bleeding and remove blood stasis, and Blood Seeing Sorrow is the classic medicine for this disease.
2. Panax ginseng (Tian Qi)
Three to seven years after sowing, each plant has three petioles and each petiole has seven leaves, hence the name San Qi.
Li Shizhen, a famous pharmacologist in the Ming Dynasty, called it “Jin Bu Chang”. According to the “Compendium of Materia Medica”, “Ginseng is the first to nourish the qi, and Panax ginseng is the first to nourish the blood, with the same taste and the same function. The famous Chinese medicine “Yunnan Baiyao” and “Pai Chai Huang” are made from Panax ginseng.
Taste: warm, sweet and slightly bitter. It belongs to the liver and stomach meridians.
Effects: Dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, reducing swelling and relieving pain. It is used for hemoptysis, vomiting blood, epistaxis, blood in stool, bleeding from collapse, bleeding from traumatic injury, stabbing pain in chest and abdomen, and pain from falling and swelling.
Comment: Panax ginseng is a “miracle medicine for stopping bleeding”, dispersing blood stasis, stopping bleeding without leaving stasis, and is especially suitable for people with bleeding and stasis.
Note: It must be used raw to stop bleeding, not in decoction! Usually 3 grams of Panax ginseng powder is used for brewing!
3. Colla Corii Asini
Taste and meridian: sweet, flat. It belongs to the lung, liver and kidney meridians.
Effects: Tonifying blood, stopping bleeding, nourishing Yin and moistening dryness.
Usage and dosage: 5~15g, closed.
Effects: Stopping bleeding is often used with Agaricus blazei. When stopping bleeding, it needs to be used together with drugs to remove blood stasis to avoid closing the door and keeping the pirates.
In addition, it can be used to treat erectile dysfunction and to treat habitual abortion and infertility.
4.Deer horn gum
Taste: sweet, salty, warm; to the liver, kidney meridian; greasy texture and, descending more ascending less.
Effects: Tonifying blood, stopping fetal bleeding.
Indications: Liver and kidney deficiency, deficiency of essence and blood, deficiency of labor and thinness, dizziness and tinnitus, lumbar and knee weakness, impotence and spermatorrhea, uterine cold and infertility, fetal disturbance, leakage of blood, vomiting, epistaxis, hemoptysis, blood in urine, bruises and injuries, gangrene and sores.