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Latin pharmacognostic name: Boehmeriae Radix

Alternate English names: boehmeria [root] Chinese silk plant [root]

Alternate Chinese names: 苎根 zhù gēn

Kingdom: Plant

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

Origin (other sources): Boehmeria nivea (L.) Gaud.

Use: Medicinal

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

Properties: Sweet; cold.

Channel entry: Heart and liver channels.

Indications:

• Cools the blood and stanches bleeding: Bleeding due to frenetic movement of hot blood, manifesting in coughing of blood, vomiting of blood (blood ejection), nosebleed, bloody urine, flooding and spotting, and purple macules.
• Clears heat and quiets the fetus: Stirring fetus or fetal spotting due to blood heat.
• Clears heat and resolves toxin: Swollen welling-abscesses due to heat toxin and snake bites.

Dosage & Method: Oral: 10–30g in decoction. If the fresh root is used, the dose is 30–60g, crushed to extract the juice. For topical use, the dried product can be decocted as a wash, or the fresh product can be applied crushed.

Product Area: Zhèjiāng, Jiāngsū, ānhuī, Shāndōng, and Shǎnxī (Shaanxi).

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