Stanching bleeding

Also containing bleeding. Any of various methods of treatment used to address bleeding. Different medicinals are used depending on whether it occurs in cold or heat patterns.

Medicinal therapy: Blood-stanching medicinals are selected for their cool or warm nature.

• Cool blood-stanching medicinals, which are used for bleeding in heat patterns, include eclipta (Ecliptae Herba, 墨旱莲 mò hàn lián), arborvitae leaf (Platycladi Cacumen, 侧柏叶 cè bǎi yè), imperata (Imperatae Rhizoma, 白茅根 bái máo gēn), trachycarpus (Trachycarpi Petiolus, 棕榈皮 zōng lǘ pí), lotus leaf (Nelumbinis Folium, 荷叶 hé yè), field thistle (Cirsii Herba, 小蓟 xiǎo jì), sophora flower (Sophorae Flos, 槐花 huái huā), and Madaio dock root (Rumicis Madaio Radix, 土大黄 tǔ dà huáng).
• Warm blood-stanching medicinals, which are used for bleeding in cold patterns, include mugwort (Artemisiae Argyi Folium, 艾叶 ài yè), agrimony (Agrimoniae Herba, 仙鹤草 xiān hè cǎo), notoginseng (Notoginseng Radix, 三七 sān qī), blast-fried ginger (Zingiberis Rhizoma Praeparatum, 炮姜 páo jiāng), and oven earth (Terra Flava Usta, 伏龙肝 fú lóng gān).

Agents are also chosen according to the location of the bleeding.

• Flooding and spotting: Mugwort (Artemisiae Argyi Folium, 艾叶 ài yè) and ox horn bone (Bovis Cornus Os, 牛角腮 niú jiǎo sāi).
• Bloody urine: Typha pollen (Typhae Pollen, 蒲黄 pú huáng), Japanese thistle (Cirsii Herba seu Radix, 大蓟 dà jì), and field thistle (Cirsii Herba, 小蓟 xiǎo jì).
• Vomiting or expectoration of blood: Bletilla (Bletillae Rhizoma, 白及 bái jí) and imperata (Imperatae Rhizoma, 白茅根 bái máo gēn).
• Bloody stool: Sanguisorba (Sanguisorbae Radix, 地榆 dì yú), sophora flower (Sophorae Flos, 槐花 huái huā), and oven earth (Terra Flava Usta, 伏龙肝 fú lóng gān).

Blood-stanching medicinals with a pronounced securing-astringent effect include arborvitae leaf (Platycladi Cacumen, 侧柏叶 cè bǎi yè), trachycarpus (Trachycarpi Petiolus, 棕榈皮 zōng lǘ pí), lotus leaf (Nelumbinis Folium, 荷叶 hé yè), bletilla (Bletillae Rhizoma, 白及 bái jí), and oven earth (Terra Flava Usta, 伏龙肝 fú lóng gān).

Charring (char-frying, or blast-frying) is frequently used to increase the astringent and blood-stanching effect of other medicinals. A representative blood-stanching formula is Ten Cinders Pill (十灰丸 shí huī wán).

Acumoxatherapy: Points are chosen according to the pattern:

• For frenetic movement of hot blood, cool the blood and stanch bleeding with points such as PC-7 (Great Mound, 大陵 dà líng), PC-4 (Cleft Gate, 郄门 xī mén), LU-6 (Collection Hole, 孔最 kǒng zuì), LU-9 (Great Abyss, 太渊 tài yuān), KI-3 (Great Ravine, 太溪 tài xī), LR-3 (Supreme Surge, 太冲 tài chōng), SP-6 (Three Yīn Intersection, 三阴交 sān yīn jiāo), and ST-44 (Inner Court, 内庭 nèi tíng); needle with drainage.
• For qì failing to contain the blood, supplement qì to contain the blood using points such as SP-1 (Hidden White, 隐白 yǐn bái), ST-36 (Leg Three Lǐ, 足三里 zú sān lǐ), CV-4 (Pass Head, 关元 guān yuán), CV-6 (Sea of Qì, 气海 qì hǎi), GV-14 (Great Hammer, 大椎 dà zhuī), and GV-20 (Hundred Convergences, 百会 bǎi huì); needle with supplementation and moxa.

See clearing heat and stanching bleeding; supplementing qì and stanching bleeding; dispelling stasis and stanching bleeding; flooding and spotting; bloody urine; blood ejection.