Medicinals

pú huáng / 蒲黄 / 蒲黃 / typha pollen;

Latin pharmacognostic name: Typhae Pollen

Alternate English names: cattail pollen

Alternate Chinese names: 蒲厘花粉 pú lí huā fěn; 蒲棒花粉 pú bàng huā fěn; 蒲草黄 pú cǎo huáng; 蒲花 pú huā; 蒲草花 pú cǎo huā

Origin: Plant

Use: medicinal

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

Properties: Sweet and acrid; cool; nontoxic*.

Channel entry: liver and heart channels.

Indications:

  • Transforms stasis and stanches bleeding: All types of internal and external bleeding and stasis pain.
  • Disinhibits urination and frees strangury: Strangury patterns, especially blood strangury.

Dosage & Method:

Oral: 3–10g in decoctions (wrap in a cloth bag); or take in powder form, drenched. Though often used raw, it is sometimes charred before use (for blood stanching). Also used topically.

Warning:

Contraindicated in pregnancy (the raw form induces uterine contractions). However, it may be used for postpartum bleeding.

Product Description:

This bright yellow pollen is light, is easily blown around, and floats on water. It sticks to the fingers but not together in lumps. Under a microscope it appears spheroid grains bearing fine hairs.

Quality:

Clean, lustrous, bright yellow pollen is the best.

Product Area:

Zhèjiāng, Jiāngsū, Shāndōng, ānhuī.

Etymology:

The name pú huáng 蒲黄), literally ""cattail yellow,"" reflects the color of this agent.

See also:

xiāng pú (香蒲 Typhae Herba, typha;)

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