Xue Jie
Name: Dragon's Blood (血竭)
Pinyin: Xue Jie
Pharm. Name: Sanguis Draconis
Properties:
|
Taste |
Characteristics |
Organs |
Dosage |
|
Sweet, Salty, Astringent |
Dispel stasis and alleviate pain, stop bleeding and promote tissue regeneration |
Heart, Liver, Pericardium |
0.3-0.6g (Decoction) 1-1.5g (Pills and Powders) |
Description:
This herb can dissolve blood stasis, dredge meridians and vessels, resolve swelling and alleviate pain served as a miraculous herb in treating swelling and pain due to stasis. For traumatic injuries and stagnant swelling and pain, it is usually combined with other stasis-resolving analgesics. For instance, it is combined with Ru Xiang, Mo Yao, and Er Cha in Qi Li San from Liang Fang Ji Ye (Collections of Useful Prescriptions). This herb can both dissolve stasis and stop bleeding with the hemostatic feature without retaining stasis. This herb is good at activating blood and resolving swelling, removing stasis and necrotic tissue, promoting tissue regeneration and healing wound, stopping bleeding, and alleviating pain.