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Stops Bleeding Flashcards

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Xian He Cao

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CATEGORY: Primarily Astringent

PROPERTIES: bitter, astringent, neutral

CHANNELS: LU, LV, SP

KEY CHARACTERISTICS: binds and inhibits bleeding

ACTIONS & INDICATIONS:

  • restrains leakage of blood & stops bleeding:
    • vomiting blood, coughing blood, nosebleed, blood in urine, uterine bleeding
    • regardless of casue, any type of bleeding
      • bleeding due to heat, cold, excess, xu
  • kills parasites
    • tapewom, vaginitis
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Bai Ji

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CATEGORY: Primarily Astringent

PROPERTIES: bitter, sweet, cool

CHANNELS: LU, ST, LV

KEY CHARACTERISTICS: restrains to stop bleeding, reduces swelling, generates flesh

ACTIONS & INDICATIONS:

  • restrains leakage of blood & stops bleeding
    • mainly bleeding from LU & ST - vomit/cough blood
      • LU cancer or ST peptic ulcers
    • bleeding associated with traumatic injury - local application
  • reduces swelling & generates flesh
    • applied topically for sores, ulcers

OTHER NOTES:

  • becasue it’s cooling you would think bleeding due to heat, but becasue it is astringent, its good for all bleeding regardless of cause
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Ou Jie (lotus rhizome)

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CATEGORY: Primarily Astringent

PROPERTIES: sweet, astringent, neutral (b/c it survives in water, this may be cool)

KEY CHARACTERISTICS: stops bleeding, removes blood stasis

ACTIONS & INDICATIONS:

  • stops bleeding
    • bleeding assicaited with heat in LU or ST w/ vomit & hemoptysis

OTHER NOTES:

  • can be used fresh; most herbs to stop bleeding are charred or fried deeply; not easy to find fresh b/c it’s seasonl
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Xue Yu Tan (charred human hair)

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CATEGORY: Primarily Astringent

PROPERTIES: bitter, neutral

KEY CHARACTERISTICS: stops bleeding, fascilitates the water pathways, reduces stasis

ACTIONS & INDICATIONS:

  • restrains leakage of blood & stops bleeding
    • especially uterine bleeding
    • any type of bleeding regardless of location or cause
  • promotes urination
    • painful urinary dribbling (lin syndrome) or blood in urine
  • generates flesh resolves sores
    • topically for sores or burns that have ulcerated
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Zong Lu Tan (charred palm seed pod)

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CATEGORY: Primarily Astringent

PROPERTIES: bitter, astringent, neutral

KEY CHARACTERISTICS: restrains & inhibits bleeding

ACTIONS & INDICATIONS:

  • binds & stops bleeding
    • coughing/spitting up blood, nosebleed, blood in stool, excessive uterine bleeding

OTHER NOTES:

  • charred form most commonly used
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Dai Ji

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CATEGORY: Primarily Cooling

PROPERTIES: sweet, cool

KEY CHARACTERISTICS: cools the blood, stops bleedinh, reduces swelling

ACTIONS & INDICATIONS:

  • cools the blood stops bleeding
    • chaotic movement of hot blood - nosebleed, vomit blood, blood in urine/stool, uterine bleeding
    • especially effective in alleviating vomit/cough blood
    • UTI w/ burning urine/blood
  • reduces swelling & generates flesh at sores
    • used topically (fresh prefered) - carbuncles, cores, swellings
  • benefits GB & reduces jaundice
    • yang jaundice due to damp heat
  • treats hypertension
    • when accompanied by signs of LV heat
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Xiao Ji

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CATEGORY: Primarily Cooling

PROPERTIES: sweet, cool

KEY CHARACTERISTICS: cools the blood, stops bleeding, promotes urination

ACTIONS & INDICATIONS:

  • cools the blood stops bleeding
    • UTI with bleeding
  • resolves toxicity and reduces abscesses (due to heat toxin)
    • internally & topically
  • recently used for yang jaundice due to damp heat
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Di Yu

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CATEGORY: Primarily Cooling

PROPERTIES: bitter, sour, slightly cold

KEY CHARACTERISTICS: cools heat in the blood, stops bleeding, resolves toxicity, restrains & inhibits

ACTIONS & INDICATIONS:

  • cools the blood stops bleeding
    • especially in lower burner due to damp-heat with blood in stool, bleeding hemmoroids, bloody dysenteric disorder, excessive uterine bleeding
  • clears heat & generates flesh
    • topically for sores, ulcers, injury, burns

OTHER NOTES:

  • 1st choice for hemmoroids bleeding
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Huai Hua Mi

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CATEGORY: Primarily Cooling

PROPERTIES: sweet, cool

KEY CHARACTERISTICS: cools the blood, clears heat, stops bleeding

ACTIONS & INDICATIONS:

  • cools the blood stops bleeding
    • damp heat patterns of Large Intestine when bleeding present (blood fresh redw hen it comes out)
    • bloody hemmorrhoids & bloody dystenteric disorders
  • cools the LV
    • red eyes, headache, dizziness dues to LV heat
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Ce Bai Ye

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CATEGORY: Primarily Cooling

PROPERTIES: bitter, astringent, slightly cold

KEY CHARACTERISTICS: cools heat, inhibits bleeding due to blood heat, stops coughs

ACTIONS & INDICATIONS:

  • cools the blood stops bleeding
    • various bleeding disorders including vomiting blood, bleeding in gums, blood in stool/urine, bloody dysenteric disorder, uterine bleeding
  • stops cough and expels phlegm
    • LU heat patterns with phlegm
  • promotes healing of burns
    • powdered form topically

OTHER NOTES:

  • clears heat from the LU and transforms phlegm
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Bai Mao Gen

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CATEGORY: Primarily Cooling

PROPERTIES: sweet, cold

KEY CHARACTERISTICS: cools the blood, stops bleeding, clears heat in the LU + ST, promotes urination

ACTIONS & INDICATIONS:

  • cools the blood stops bleeding
    • chaotic movement of hot blood - nosebleed, vomit/cough blood, blood in urine
    • particularly for upper body bleeding
  • clears heat and promotes urination
    • UTI + lin syndrome
  • clears heat fromt he ST & LU
    • not used for just clearing heat but it if causes bleeding
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Pu Huang (pollen typhae)

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CATEGORY: Primarily Invigorate Blood

PROPERTIES: sweet, acrid, neutral

KEY CHARACTERISTICS: stops bleeding, removes blood stasis, promotes urination

ACTIONS & INDICATIONS:

  • stops bleeding (internal & external)
    • traumatic injury - external
    • uterine bleeding, comit blood, nosebleed, cough blood, blood in urine, blood in stool, subcutaneous bleeding - intenral
    • astringent nature = stop bleeding
  • invigorate blood and dispel blood stasis
    • painful period & endometriosis
    • invigorate even with no bleeding
  • promotes urination and stops bleeding
    • UTI

OTHER NOTES:

  • used charred to enhance stop bleeding fx (tan)
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San (Tian) Qi (pseudoginseng root)

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CATEGORY: Primarily Invigorate Blood

PROPERTIES: sweet, slightly bitter, warm

KEY CHARACTERISTICS: stops bleeding without causing blood stasis, transforms blodo stasis, reduces swelling & stops pain

ACTIONS & INDICATIONS:

  • stops bleeding and transforms blood stasis
    • internal & external bleeding
    • includes vomit blood, nosebleed, blood in urine or stool
  • reduces swelling and alleviates pain
    • choice herb for traumatice injries - falls, fracture, contusion, sprains

OTHER NOTES:

  • when you cool blood to stop bleeding you may need something to gently move it so there is no stasis
  • in China, used as common supplement for blood disorder - nourish women after period
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Qian Cao Gen

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CATEGORY: Primarily Invigorate Blood

PROPERTIES: bitter, cold

KEY CHARACTERISTICS: cools the blood, stops bleeding, removes blood stasis

ACTIONS & INDICATIONS:

  • cools the blood & stops bleeding
    • bleeding due to heat
    • vomit blood, nosebleed, cough blood, blood in stoll, uterine bleeding
  • invigorates the blood and dispels blood stasis
    • pain due to stasis - chest/flank
    • retained lochia, pain from trauama, joint pain
      • sometimes pain with no bleeding
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Jiang Xiang (scented rosewood)

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CATEGORY: Primarily Invigorate Blood

PROPERTIES: acrid, warm - aromatic (active for moving)

KEY CHARACTERISTICS: disperses stasis, stops bleeding, arrests pain

ACTIONS & INDICATIONS:

  • disperses blood stasis and stops bleeding
    • often used for internal injuries due to trauma
    • fractures, sprains, contusions
  • invigorates blood, promotes movement of qi, alleviates pain
    • epigastric and abdominal pain due to stagnant qi in ST/SP
    • HT disases/chest pain due to stasis
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Hua Rui Shi (mineral stone)

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CATEGORY: Primarily Invigorate Blood

PROPERTIES: sour, astringent, neutral

KEY CHARACTERISTICS: stops bleeding, disperses blood stasis

ACTIONS & INDICATIONS:

  • disperses blood stasis & stops bleeding
    • ​topically for bleeding due to trauma
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Ai Ye (mugwort leaf)

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CATEGORY: Primarily Warming

PROPERTIES: bitter, acrid, warm

KEY CHARACTERISTICS: dispels cold-dampness, stops pain due to cold, stops bleeding, calms fetus during pregnancy

ACTIONS & INDICATIONS:

  • warms the womb and stops blooding
    • prolonged menstural bleeding and uterine bleeding due to cold from xu
    • threateend miscariage = womb too cold
    • infertility due to cold
  • disperses cold and alleviates pain
    • cold abdominal/menstural pain
  • eliminates dampness and stops itching
    • eccema or vaginits - external wash/douche
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Fou Long Gan (dragon liver) | Zao Xin Tu (oven earth)

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CATEGORY: Primarily Warming

PROPERTIES: acrid, warm - bitter (charred/ash)

ACTIONS & INDICATIONS:

  • warms the blood and stops bleeding
    • associated with patterns of cold from xu
      • SP yand qi xu
  • warms the ST and stops vomiting
    • vomiting associated with ST cold + morning sickness
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Stop Bleeding: Primarily Astringent

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  1. Xian He Cao
  2. Bai Ji
  3. Ou Jie
  4. Xue Yu Tan
  5. Zong Lu Tan
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Stop Bleeding: Primarily Cooling

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  1. Dai Ji
  2. Xiao Ji
  3. Di Yu
  4. Huai Hua Mi
  5. Ce Bai Ye
  6. Bai Mao Gen
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Stop Bleeding: Primarily Invigorate Blood

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  1. Pu Huang
  2. San (Tian) Qi
  3. Qian Cao Gen
  4. Jiang Xiang
  5. Hua Rui Shi
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Stop Bleeding: Primarily Warming

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  1. Ai Ye
  2. Fu Long Gan
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What are the 3 categories of blood pathologies in TCM?

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  1. bleeding
  2. blood stasis
  3. blood xu
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What are the 3 categories of herbs that regulate blood?

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  1. stop bleeding
  2. invigorate the blood
  3. tonify the blood
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What are the 3 primary reasons bleeding occurs?

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  1. heat = excessive yang or yin xu
  2. SP qi fails to contain the blood = SP qi or yang xu
  3. blood stasis = obstructs normal passageways
  4. trauma = cut, etc

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