Carbonized petiole of windmill palm (Zonglutan)
Pharmaceutical Name: Petiolus
Trachycarpi carbonisatus
Botanical Name: Trachycarpus fortunei H. wendl.
Common Name: Carbonized palm fiber,
Carbonized petiole of windmill palm
Source of Earliest Record: Bencao Shiyi.
Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical
Preparations: The palm fiber is gathered in the period of the Winter
Solstice (twenty-second solar term), and then it is carbonized.
Properties & Taste: Bitter,
astringent and neutral.
Meridians: Lung, liver and large
intestine.
Functions: To stop bleeding.
Indications & Combinations:
1. Hemorrhages due to extravasation of blood
by heat manifested as cough with blood, vomiting with blood, epistaxis, bloody
stool and uterine bleeding. Carbonized petiole of windmill palm (Zonglutan)
is used with Imperata rhizome (Baimaogen), Japanese thistle (Daji), Small
thistle (Xiaoji) and Capejasmine (Zhizi) in the formula Shihui San.
2. Hemorrhages due to deficiency of yang qi
leading to failure of the spleen to control blood manifested as uterine
bleeding or bloody stool. Carbonized petiole of windmill palm (Zonglutan)
is used with Astragalus root (Huangqi), Ginseng (Renshen) and White
atractylodes (Baizhu).
Dosage: 3-10 g.
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