Red Root Sage, as a traditional Chinese medicinal herb, has many benefits and functions. Let's take a look at the efficacy and functions of Red Root Sage as well as its main uses.
【Efficacy and Functions of Red Root Sage】
1. Clears heat and detoxifies
Red Root Sage has a cooling nature and can clear heat and toxins. It is used for sore throat, mouth ulcers, and red eyes.
2. Cools blood and relieves pain
It is used to treat abnormal vaginal discharge, boils, burns, snake and insect bites.
3. Reduces swelling and treats sores
It is used for treating ulcers, excessive alcohol consumption, excessive thirst, postpartum blockage, and can be made into a healing ointment. It is also used for internal bleeding and blood deficiency.
4. Stops bleeding
It is used for various types of bleeding such as vomiting blood, coughing up blood, nosebleeds, urinary bleeding, rectal bleeding, hemorrhoids bleeding, and excessive menstrual bleeding.
【Main Uses】
Red Root Sage has anti-inflammatory and hemostatic properties. It is used for treating colitis, dysentery, abdominal pain, internal bleeding, nosebleeds, rectal bleeding, excessive menstrual bleeding, and injuries from falls or blows.
1. According to "Dian Nan Ben Cao": "Used for relieving coldness in the face, back, and abdomen, long-term colon bleeding, and red and white dysentery after seven days."
2. According to "Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine": "Promotes digestion, stops diarrhea and bleeding. It is used for treating dysentery, diarrhea, internal bleeding, excessive menstrual bleeding, and stomach pain."
3. According to "Selected Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine": "Constricts and stops bleeding, promotes blood circulation, relieves pain, promotes digestion, and stops diarrhea. It is used for treating colitis, dysentery, chronic gastritis, diarrhea, indigestion, irregular menstruation, postpartum bleeding, nosebleeds, and injuries from falls or blows."
【Dosage】Oral administration: decoction, 9-15 grams; soaked in alcohol or made into pills or powder.
【Additional Formula Applications】
1. For treating coldness in the face, back, and abdomen: grind one gram of Red Root Sage into powder and take it with hot liquor. (From "Dian Nan Ben Cao")
2. For treating intestinal heat accumulation, colon bleeding, or bloody dysentery: grind one liang of Red Root Sage, three qian of sophora fruit (fried or flower can also be used), five qian of bitter orange peel, three qian of scutellaria baicalensis, two qian of platycodon root, and five qian of coptis chinensis (fried in liquor) into fine powder and roll it into pills the size of rice grains. Take two qian with rice soup. (From "Dian Nan Ben Cao")
3. For treating tracheitis: five qian of purple sage and three qian of tangerine peel. Mix with brown sugar and decoct with water for consumption. (From "Folk Medicinal Herbs commonly used in Kunming")
