Field Thistle Herb
Cirsii Herba, Herba Cirsii
Xiao Ji

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Sweet; bitter; cool

Part(s) used

Whole herb or root

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To arrest bleeding by reducing heat in blood, and to remove blood stasis and induce the subsidence of swelling.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Coughing of blood, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematuria, blood strangury, hematochezia, blood dysentery, flooding and spotting, bleeding due to external injury, swelling toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess.