Introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine – Diyu

Source:

The dry roots of the Rosaceae elm or long leaved elm.

Sexual and Taste Returning to the Classics:

Bitter, sour, slightly cold. Return to the liver, stomach, and large intestine meridians.

Performance characteristics:

This product can relieve heat toxicity, cool blood and stop bleeding, reduce swelling and relieve pain. It is suitable for patients with blood heat bleeding; Due to its sinking into the lower burner, it is good at treating various symptoms such as blood heat in the lower burner, and is an excellent product for treating hemorrhoids, rectal bleeding, and collapse. External use is effective in detoxifying, reducing swelling, astringing sores, and relieving pain. It is an essential medicine for treating water fire burns.

effect:

Cooling blood to stop bleeding, detoxifying and healing sores.

Indications:

(1) Blood heat, coughing up blood, bleeding, vomiting blood, urinating blood, rectal bleeding, hemorrhoids blood, collapse and excessive menstruation.

(2) Medications are needed for burns, eczema, skin ulcers, and swelling.

identify:

Irregular spindle shaped or cylindrical. The cross-section is relatively flat and slightly powdery. The skin is pale yellow, the wood is pink or pale yellow, with radiating patterns. The bark of the elm tree has mostly yellow white or yellow brown cotton like fibers. Slightly bitter and astringent.