Artichoke is not used to treat tuberculosis. Xiao Ji has the efficacy of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, dispersing blood stasis, removing toxins and eliminating carbuncles. It is used for epistaxis (nosebleed), vomiting blood, urinating blood, stool blood, bleeding from leakage (excessive menstruation or dripping) and traumatic bleeding.
1. Blood-heat hemorrhage: Xiao Ji is cool in nature, taking the blood division (in the four periods of warm disease, Wei Qi and Ying Blood, it belongs to the most in-depth stage or disease position), good at clearing blood-heat, and also capable of dispersing blood stasis, cooling the blood and stopping hemorrhage without the disadvantage of retaining blood stasis, it can be used alone for pounding the juice, or with the combination of artichoke, cyperus rotundus leaf, and leucaena root.
2. Heat-poisoned sores and carbuncles: Xiao Ji is bitter and cool, which can not only clear heat-poisoned sores, but also dissipate blood stasis to eliminate carbuncles (promoting the dissipation of blood stasis and carbuncle poison). It is suitable for the first appearance of heat-poison sores with redness, swelling, heat and pain. It can be used alone with fresh products and pounded on the affected area, or used with frankincense and myrrh.
Xiao Ji is contraindicated in people with cold spleen and stomach without stagnation. If you need to take this medicine, you should do so under the guidance of a doctor.