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<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T16:35:47.932142+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
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  <licence>Free to use and republish with visible attribution and a link back to the source page. The catalogue is a reference work and is knowingly incomplete; nothing in it is medical advice.</licence>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">hua rui shi</name>
    <name type="chinese">花蕊石</name>
    <name type="latin">Ophicalcitum</name>
    <name type="english">Ophicalcite</name>
    <name type="japanese">kazuiseki</name>
    <name type="korean">hwayeseok</name>
  </names>
  <category>Regulate Blood, Stop Bleeding</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Liver</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Stops bleeding, invigorates Blood and transforms stasis</summary>
      <indication>Vomiting or coughing of blood where stasis is part of the picture; especially valued for vomiting of blood with stasis</indication>
      <indication>Internal Blood stasis</indication>
      <indication>Bleeding from injury, internal or external, with the powder applied directly to wounds and sores</indication>
      <indication>Uterine bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Blood stasis after childbirth with dizziness or fainting, or a retained placenta</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
