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Alternate English names: thistle

Kingdom: Plant

Origin in PRC Pharmacopoeia: Cirsium setosum (Willd.) MB. (PRC Pharmacopoeia)

Origin in unofficial sources: Cephalanoplos segetum (Bge.) Kitam.; Cephalanoplos setosum (Bieb.) Kitam.*

Use: Medicinal

Category: Blood-stanching agents / Blood-cooling blood-stanching agents

Properties: Sweet; cool; nontoxic*.

Channel entry: Liver and spleen channels.

Actions and indications: Cools the blood, dispels stasis, and stanches bleeding. Treats vomiting of blood (blood ejection), bloody urine, blood strangury, flooding and spotting; acute infectious hepatitis; welling-abscesses (yōng), clove sores (dīng).

Dosage and method: Oral: Decoct (4.5–9g). Topical: Crush or decoct.

Warnings: Contraindicated in spleen vacuity or absence of stasis.

Production area: All parts of China.

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