Wiseman’s Chinese Medical Database

zōng lǘ pí / 棕榈皮 / 棕櫚皮 / trachycarpus [petiole];

Latin pharmacognostic name: Trachycarpi Petiolus

Alternate English names: windmill palm [petiole]

Alternate Chinese names: 棕榈 zōng lǚ pí; 棕皮 zōng pí

Origin: Plant

Use: medicinal

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

Properties: Bitter and astringent; balanced; nontoxic*.

Channel entry: liver and spleen channels.*

Indications:

Astringes and stanches bleeding.

vomiting of blood (blood ejection); nosebleed (nǜ xuè); bloody stool or urine; dysentery; blood strangury; flooding and spotting; vaginal discharge; incised wounds; scab (jiè) and lichen (xiǎn).

Quality:

XXXthree types

Product Area:

Jiāngxī, Jiāngsū, ānhuī, Zhèjiāng, Fújiàn, Táiwān, Guǎngdōng, Guǎngxī, Húnán, Húběi, Sìchuān, Guìzhōu, and Yúnnán.