Purple bead leaf, as a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, has many benefits. Let's take a look at the picture of purple bead leaf and its benefits and functions.
【Benefits and Functions of Purple Bead Leaf】
Purple bead leaf has the effects of cooling blood, astringing to stop bleeding, dispersing stasis, detoxifying, and reducing swelling. It is often used for bleeding, coughing up blood, vomiting blood, rectal bleeding, irregular menstruation, external bleeding, and burns.
"Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines in Clinical Practice": This herb is cool but not cold, and it also promotes blood circulation. Therefore, it can astringe to stop bleeding without leaving blood stasis, promote blood circulation without dissipating, and cool blood without blocking. It is an excellent herb for stopping bleeding and is widely used for internal and external bleeding caused by various reasons.
【Dosage and Usage】
3-15g of purple bead leaf; 1.5-3g of powdered leaf for oral consumption. For external use, apply an appropriate amount to the affected area.
【Morphology of Purple Bead Leaf】
Purple bead leaf is a shrub or small tree with young branches covered in gray-white long hairs. The leaves are opposite, long elliptical to lanceolate in shape, with short soft hairs on the upper surface and densely covered in gray-white hairs on the lower surface, with indistinct golden yellow glandular points on both sides. The umbel inflorescence branches 5-7 times, with a total peduncle length of 2-4cm. The calyx is 4-lobed and covered in star-shaped soft hairs. The corolla is purple, tubular, with 4 slightly hairy lobes at the tip. There are 4 stamens and the ovary is superior with 4 chambers. The fruit of the purple bead leaf is a berry-like drupe, small and spherical, with glandular points, and turns purplish-red when ripe. It flowers in summer.
【Compatibility and Application of Purple Bead Leaf】
1. Gastric and duodenal ulcer bleeding: compatible with baiji.
2. Bleeding, gingival bleeding: compatible with cypress leaf.
3. Upper respiratory tract infection, flu: compatible with purple giant hyssop, qingpi.
4. Abscesses and swelling: compatible with dandelion, honeysuckle.
【Picture of Purple Bead Leaf】
Picture of purple bead leaf
Picture of purple bead leaf
