NATURE:
Warm; sweet and slightly bitter, attributive to liver and stomach.
CHARACTERISTICS:
Roots with surface grey-yellow, waxily lustrous, with caudex at the apex
and tubercular branch root scars at the upper part. Extremely effective
styptic action when applied directly to traumatic wounds; heals with out
leaving clots and scars; internally and externally, best drug for serious
bleeding.
THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS:
Promote blood circulation to remove blood stasis, stop bleeding, relieve
swelling and alleviate pain. For various kinds of bleeding due to trauma and
blood-stasis syndrome.