Artichoke has the efficacy and effect of cooling and stopping bleeding (cooling and moisturizing the blood to prevent bleeding), detoxifying and eliminating carbuncles. There are no clear side effects or contraindications. 1. Cooling the blood to stop bleeding (cooling and moistening the blood to prevent bleeding): Chinese medicine believes that blood-heat will force the blood to move uncontrollably, and the blood will overflow out of the meridians, thus leading to bleeding, and artichoke, which is cold in nature and bitter in taste, can cool the blood to achieve the effect of stopping bleeding. It is suitable for patients suffering from bleeding from nostrils, vomiting blood, blood in the stool, blood in urine, bleeding from trauma, and bleeding in women who have excessive menstruation, sudden heavy bleeding from the vagina outside of menstruation, or slow onset of menstruation with continuous dribbling. 2. Detoxification and elimination of carbuncles: Chinese medicine believes that blood-heat congestion in the skin and internal organs can easily lead to carbuncles and nodules, while artichoke is cold in nature, enters the blood division (which is the deepest stage or location of the disease among the four periods of warm diseases, namely Wei qi and Ying blood), and clears heat from the blood division. It can detoxify and eliminate carbuncle and disperse nodules, and is suitable for patients with sores, skin swelling and pain, scrofula (mainly referring to neck lymph node tuberculosis), intestinal carbuncle (carbuncle occurring in the intestines and bowels, manifested by fever, pain in the right abdomen, and palpable lumps), and carbuncle and gangrene (a kind of poisonous sores, which occurs as an acute suppurative disease of the surface of the body, the limbs, and the internal organs) with hairy backs due to Blood-heat. Note: Patients should take Artichoke under the guidance of a physician with reasonable evidence to ensure that the medication is safe and effective.