Dosage 9-15g, treats the liver, spleen, and heart
Actions: Cools the blood and stops bleeding,treats nose bleeds, painful bloody urination, vomiting and coughing blood, hemorrhaging blood, resolves toxic sores and abscesses due to toxic heat, treats damp heat jaundice, boils, furuncles, hepatitis, and hypertension(Chinese Materia Medica, 1986).
Contraindications: weak stomach with anorexia