Su Mu
Name: Sappan wood (蘇木)
Pinyin: Su Mu
Pharm. Name: Lignum Sappan
Properties:
|
Taste |
Characteristics |
Organs |
Dosage |
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Salty, Acrid, Sweet |
Activate blood and cure trauma, dispel stasis, and dredge meridians. |
Heart, Spleen, Liver |
3-10g, 15g (Maximum) |
Description:
This herb can activate blood, cure trauma, resolve swelling, and alleviate pain. For traumatic injuries, bone fracture, soft tissue injuries, swelling, and pain due to stasis, it is used internally and externally. It is one of the most commonly used herbs in traumatology. It is usually combined with blood-activating and trauma-curing analgesics orally. For gynecological menstrual and partial diseases caused by stasis such as amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, postpartum abdominal stagnant pain, and so on, it is decocted singly or combined with blood-activating and stasis-dispelling herbs and menstruation-regulating analgesics such as Chuan Xiong, Dang Gui, and Hong Hua.