Agrimony
(Xianhecao)
Pharmaceutical
Name: Herba Agrimoniae.
Botanical
Name: Agrimonia pilosa Ledeb.
Nakai.
Common
Name: Agrimony.
Source
of Earliest Record: Diannan Bencao.
Part
Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations: The entire plant is
gathered in summer or autumn. It is cleaned, dried in the sun and cut into
pieces.
Properties
& Taste: Bitter, astringent and neutral.
Meridians:
Lung, liver and spleen.
Functions:
1. To stop bleeding; 2. To relieve dysentery; 3. To kill parasites.
Indications
& Combinations:
1. Hemorrhages due to extravasation of blood
by heat manifested as cough with blood, vomiting with blood, epistaxis,
hematuria, bloody stool and uterine bleeding. Agrimony (Xianhecao) is used
with Fresh rehmannia root (Shengdihuang), Moutan bark (Mudanpi), Capejasmine
(Zhizi) and Biota tops (Cebaiye).
2. Hemorrhages due to deficient yang qi
leading to failure of the spleen to control blood, which results in bloody
stool or uterine bleeding. Agrimony (Xianhecao) is used with Ginseng
(Renshen), Astragalus root (Huangqi) and Prepared rehmannia root (Shudihuang).
3. Trichomonas vaginitis with itching;
120 g of the herb is prepared in decoction, a cotton ball soaked in the
decoction is then put into the vagina for 3-4 hours. Treatment is given once
daily for one week.
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