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<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T16:35:48.043801+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">qian cao gen</name>
    <name type="chinese">茜草根</name>
    <name type="latin">Radix et Rhizoma Rubiae</name>
    <name type="english">Indian madder root</name>
    <name type="japanese">seiso</name>
    <name type="korean">cheoncho</name>
  </names>
  <category>Regulate Blood, Stop Bleeding</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Heart</channel>
    <channel>Liver</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Cools Blood and stops bleeding</summary>
      <indication>Bleeding from Blood Heat: nosebleed, coughing or vomiting of blood, uterine bleeding, and blood in the urine or stool</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Invigorates Blood and dispels stasis</summary>
      <indication>Blood stasis pain, above all in the chest and flanks</indication>
      <indication>Retained lochia</indication>
      <indication>Painful, swollen injuries</indication>
      <indication>Joint pain</indication>
      <indication>Early-stage carbuncles</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Unblocks the channels, vessels and menses</summary>
      <indication>Wind causing pain of the joints and bones</indication>
      <indication>Absent, late or blocked periods from Blood stasis</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Disperses Wind-Damp</summary>
      <indication>Bi pain</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Cools the Liver and transforms Phlegm</summary>
      <indication>Long-standing, stubborn cough with chest pain when Liver Fire attacks the Lungs</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
