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Alternate Chinese names: 护生菜 hù shēng cài; 鸡心菜 jī xīn cài; 净肠菜 jìng cháng cài; 地菜 dì cài; 香荠 xiāng jì; 青明草 qīng míng cǎo

Kingdom: Plant

Origin in unofficial sources: Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medic.

Use: Alimentary

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

Properties: Sweet and bland; cool; nontoxic*.

Channel entry: Liver, spleen, and bladder channels.*

Actions and indications:

• Cools the blood and stanches bleeding: Any bleeding from blood heat, including vomiting of blood (blood ejection), bloody stool, flooding and spotting, profuse menstruation.
• Clears the liver and brightens the eyes: painful red swollen red eyes; eye screens.
• Clear heat and disinhibits urine: Damp-heat dysentery; water swelling; strangury.

Dosage and method: Oral: 15-30g of the dried product or 60–120g of the fresh product, decocted or made into pills and powders. Topical: Apply the juice.

Quality: Dry plants with greenish stems and without extraneous weeds are the best.

Production area: Grows wild in most parts and is cultivated mainly in Jiāngsū, ānhuī, and the area surrounding Shànghǎi.

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