Shi Liu Pi
Name: Pomegranate Husk (石榴皮)
Pinyin: Shi Liu Pi
Pharm. Name: Punica Granatum
Properties:
|
Taste |
Characteristics |
Organs |
|
Sour, Astringent |
Astringe intestines to check diarrhea, check bleeding through astringency |
Kidney Large Intestine |
Description:
It is a commonly used herb for chronic diarrhea and dysentery because it enters the large intestine meridian, and it can astringe intestines to stop diarrhea. It could be decocted or smashed into powder singly or combined with other intestine-astringing and diarrhea-checking herbs such as Rou Duo Kuo, He Zi. For chronic diarrhea and dysentery due to deficiency cold, it is combined with the middle-warming and diarrhea-checking herbs, for instance, it is used with Gan Jiang and Fu Zi. It is indicated for hematochezia, metrorrhagia, and metrostaxis because it can astringe to check bleeding. For hematochezia, it could be decocted singly or combined with hemostatic herbs.