Ji Cai荠菜
Herba CapsellaeShepherd's Purse
Also known asHerb Capsellae Bursa-Pastori
- Category
- Herbs that Stop Bleeding (Hemostatics)
- Nature
- neutral, cool
- Taste
- sweet, bland
- Channels entered
- Liver, Stomach, Heart, Lung
- Dosage
- 9–30 g
Usual doses
- Dosage
- 9–30 g
- Fresh
- 60–120 g
Actions & indications
- Promotes diuresis, harmonizes the Spleen and stops bleeding
- Red dysentery, edema, urinary tract infection, hematochezia, hemoptysis, metrorrhagia, stranguria, chyluria, menorrhagia, hematemesis
- Improves vision
- Iritis, acute conjunctivitis
- Lowers Blood pressure
- Hypertension