As a traditional Chinese medicine, Chi Di Yu has many medicinal properties. Let's take a look at some Chi Di Yu pictures and its effects.
[Chi Di Yu Pictures]
Chi Di Yu Pictures
Chi Di Yu Pictures
[The Effects of Chi Di Yu]
Chi Di Yu has the following effects: clearing heat and dampness, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It is used to treat diarrhea, dysentery, indigestion, epigastric pain, nosebleeds, and excessive menstrual bleeding.
① "Dian Nan Ben Cao": "It stops abdominal pain, back pain, stomachache, and chronic colonic bleeding, and treats red and white dysentery after seven days."
② "Yunnan Chinese Medicinal Herbs": "It promotes digestion, stops diarrhea and bleeding, and treats dysentery, diarrhea, internal bleeding, excessive menstrual bleeding, and stomachache."
③ "Selected Yunnan Chinese Medicinal Herbs": "It constricts and stops bleeding, promotes blood circulation, relieves pain, strengthens the stomach, and stops diarrhea. It is used to treat enteritis, dysentery, chronic gastritis, diarrhea, indigestion, irregular menstruation, excessive postpartum bleeding, nosebleeds, and bruises."
[The Morphology of Chi Di Yu]
1. Purple Chi Di Yu
It is a perennial herb, 15-30cm tall. The rhizome is woody, with several stout roots. The stem is upright, with 2-3 binary branches at the lower part.
The basal leaves have a long petiole of up to 16.5cm; the stem leaves are opposite, with shorter petioles and lanceolate stipules. The leaf blades are pentagonal, with a diameter of 2-7cm and 3-5 palmately deeply lobed.
The lobes are rhomboid, with small pointed tips and serrated edges of varying depths. The upper surface is dark green, while the lower surface is greenish-white. The veins are sunken on the upper surface and protruding on the lower surface.
The petals are reddish-purple, broadly ovate, slightly concave or entire at the apex, and hairy at the base. The stamens are diamond-shaped, hairless or hairy at the base, and have pale yellow anthers. The pistil is nearly equal in length to the ovary, densely covered with upward white hairs, and the stigma is hairless. The fruit is up to 3cm long, covered with fine short hairs. The flowering and fruiting period is from June to August.
[Application of Chi Di Yu in Prescriptions]
① Treatment for coldness in the face, back, and abdomen: Grind one qian (3.75g) of Chi Di Yu into powder and take it with hot wine. ("Dian Nan Ben Cao")
② Treatment for intestinal bleeding due to accumulation of heat in the intestine, or bloody dysentery caused by intestinal wind: Mix one liang (37.5g) of Chi Di Yu, three qian (11.25g) of Huai Jiao (fried or flowers can also be used), five qian (18.75g) of Zhi Ke, three qian (11.25g) of Huang Qin, two qian (7.5g) of Jing Jie Sui, and five qian (18.75g) of Quan Qin Gui. Grind them into fine powder and make pills the size of toon seeds. Take two qian (7.5g) of the pills with rice soup. ("Dian Nan Ben Cao")
③ Treatment for bronchitis: Mix five qian (18.75g) of purple Chi Di Yu with three qian (11.25g) of Chen Pi. Decoction with red sugar and take it. ("Folk Medicinal Herbs in Kunming")
