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Latin pharmacognostic name: Rubiae Radix

Alternate English names: rubia [root]

Alternate Chinese names: 茜根 qiàn gēn; 茜草 qiàn cǎo; 茜草根 qiàn cǎo gēn

Kingdom: Plant

Origin in PRC Pharmacopoeia: Rubia cordifolia L. (PRC Pharmacopoeia)

Origin (other sources): Rubia cordifolia L.*; Rubia cordifolia L. var. longifolia Hand.-Mazz.; Rubia chinensis Reg. et Maack; Rubia truppeliana Loes.; Rubia cordifolia L. var. pratensis Maxim.; Rubia chinensis Reg. et Maack

Use: Medicinal

Category: Blood-stanching agents / Stasis-transforming blood-stanching agents

Properties: Bitter; cold.

Channel entry: Liver channels.

Indications:

• Cools the blood, transforms stasis, and stanches bleeding: Bleeding due to blood heat complicated by stasis, manifesting in vomiting of blood (blood ejection), nosebleed, flooding and spotting, bloody urine, or bloody stool.
• Frees the channels: Blood stasis amenorrhea, injury from knocks and falls, wind-damp impediment pain.

Dosage & Method: Oral: 10–15g in decoctions. It may be char-fried to stanch bleeding, but it should be used raw or wine-fried to quicken the blood and free the channels.

Quality: Large roots that are reddish brown on the outside and bright red on the inside, with few branch roots or stems are the best.

Product Area: Mainly produced in Shǎnxī (Shaanxi), Hénán, Hénán, and Shāndōng, the first two of these producing the most and the best; produced on a lesser scale in Húběi, Jiāngsū, Zhèjiāng, Gānsū, Liáoníng, Shānxī, Guǎngdōng, Guǎngxī, Sìchuān.

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