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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

Kingdom: Plant

Origin in PRC Pharmacopoeia: Typha angustifolia L.; Typha orientalis Presl (PRC Pharmacopoeia)

Origin (other sources): Typha angustifolia L.*; Typha angustata Bory et Chaub.; Typha latifolia L.; Typha davidiana Hand.-Mazz.; Typha minima Funk.; Typha orientalis Presl*

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.

Warnings: 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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