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Boehmeriae Folium

Ramie leaf

苎麻叶 〔苧麻葉〕 zhù má yè

Alternate English names: boehmeria leaf

Kingdom: Plant

Origin in PRC Pharmacopoeia: Bohemeria nivea (L.) Gaud. (PRC Pharmacopoeia)

Origin in unofficial sources: Boehmeria nivea (L.) Gaud.

Use: Medicinal

Properties: Sweet; cold; nontoxic.

Actions and indications: Cools the blood, stanches bleeding, disperses stasis. Treats expectoration of blood; vomiting of blood (blood ejection); blood strangury; swelling pain of the anus gate; red and white vaginal discharge; blood stasis due to injury from knocks and falls; bleeding from external injury; mammary welling-abscesses (rǔ yōng); cinnabar toxin.

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