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Notoginseng / Panax Notoginseng (san qi) 三七

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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.

 

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