Di Yu (Bloodwort) is distributed in Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Gansu, and other areas. It has the effects of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, detoxifying, and healing wounds. Let's take a look at the method of using Di Yu in traditional Chinese medicine to treat dog bites and its images below!
Di Yu (Bloodwort)
Morphological Characteristics of Di Yu (Bloodwort)
It is a perennial herbaceous plant that can reach a height of up to 1.5 meters. It has a thick and strong rhizome with numerous spindle-shaped roots. The stem is erect and has edges. The leaves are usually heart-shaped or truncated, with coarse serrations on the edges, hairless, and with leaf stalks that have leaf-like appendages at the base.
The flowers are small and densely arranged in a rounded spike-like inflorescence at the top. The inflorescence is 1-4 centimeters long, with a diameter of about 1 centimeter. The inflorescence stalk is slender and long. The sepals are purple-red, persistent, and there are no petals. The stamens are 4, protruding outward, and the flowers are purple-red. The ovary is superior. The fruit is brown and covered with fine hairs.
Efficacy of Di Yu (Bloodwort)
Effects: Cooling blood, stopping bleeding, detoxifying, and healing wounds.
Indications: Used for hemorrhages, blood in the stool, dysentery, excessive menstrual bleeding, burns, scalds, abscesses, and toxic sores.
Dosage and Administration of Di Yu (Bloodwort)
Internal use: Decoction, 6-15g; fresh herb, 30-120g; or made into pills or powder, can also be juiced for oral administration.
External use: Use an appropriate amount, boil with water or crush and apply externally; it can also be ground into powder or made into a paste for external application.
Applications of Di Yu (Bloodwort) in Prescriptions
Di Yu (Bloodwort)
1. Hemoptysis in both men and women
Take three liang of Di Yu (Bloodwort) and one liter of rice vinegar, boil it for more than ten times, remove the residue, and take it slightly warm before meals in a dose of one he (about 10 grams). (From "Sheng Hui Fang")
2. Continuous bleeding with abdominal pain due to rectal bleeding
Take four liang of Di Yu (Bloodwort) and three liang of roasted licorice. Take five qian (about 15 grams) per dose, boil it with three cups of water, add seven pieces of shrunk sandalwood, and boil it to make one and a half cups. Divide it into two doses. (From "Xuan Ming Fang")
3. Infantile infantile diarrhea
Boil Di Yu (Bloodwort) to make juice, cook it like maltose, and take it. (From "Zhou Hou Fang")
4. Snakebite
Crush fresh Di Yu (Bloodwort) roots and drink the juice, and apply it to the wound to prevent infection. (From "Zhou Hou Fang")
5. Dog bite
Boil Di Yu (Bloodwort) to make juice and drink it, and apply the powder externally. It can also be ground into powder, mixed with clear soup, and taken three times a day. Avoid alcohol. (From "Mei Shi Fang")
Precautions for Consuming Di Yu (Bloodwort)
1. Caution for people with weak and cold constitution
Di Yu (Bloodwort) has a cold and sour taste. It should be used with caution in cases of bleeding or stasis caused by weak and cold constitution.
2. Patients with extensive burns
For patients with extensive burns, it is not suitable to use Di Yu (Bloodwort) preparations externally to prevent excessive absorption of its tannins, which may cause toxic hepatitis.
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