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<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T16:35:22.446513+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
  <canonical>https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/pu-huang/</canonical>
  <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">pu huang</name>
    <name type="chinese">蒲黄</name>
    <name type="latin">Pollen Typhae</name>
    <name type="english">Cattail Pollen</name>
    <name type="japanese">hoo</name>
    <name type="korean">pohwang</name>
  </names>
  <category>Regulate Blood, Stop Bleeding</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Spleen</channel>
    <channel>Heart</channel>
    <channel>Liver</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Stops bleeding by astringing</summary>
      <indication>Bleeding from traumatic injury, applied externally</indication>
      <indication>Internal bleeding of many kinds: uterine bleeding, vomiting or coughing blood, nosebleed, blood in the urine or stool, and bleeding under the skin</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Invigorates Blood and dispels stasis</summary>
      <indication>Pain from Blood stasis in the chest, in the abdomen after childbirth, or with menstruation</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Promotes urination</summary>
      <indication>Lin syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Painful, bloody dribbling urination (Blood Lin)</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
