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Cools the Blood and stops bleeding

Blood Heat bleeding (coughing or vomiting blood, nosebleed) or purpura; may be given as a single herb

Calms the fetus and prevents miscarriage

Restless fetus from accumulated Heat; can be used alone

Clears Heat, cools the Blood and opens the water passages to promote urination

Damp-Heat pouring into the Bladder with scanty or dribbling urine Painful urination, blood in the urine or gonorrhea Thirst

Cools the Blood and resolves toxicity

Fresh herb crushed and applied to toxic sores: carbuncles and toxic swellings, erysipelas, furuncles on the shoulders or back, and snakebite