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Di Yu

Bloodwort Root
   

Properties:

Bitter, Sour  - Cool

Meridians:

LR - Yangming [LI - ST]

 

Also Known As:  

Blood Root, Coon Root, Indian Plant, Indian Red Paint, Pauson, Red Indian Paint, Red Puccoon, Red Root,

Sanguinaria, Sanguinaria canadensis, Snakebite, Sweet Slumber, Tetterwort. Sanguinaria canadensis.  

Family: Papaveraceae.

Properties:

  • cool blood, stop bleeding in lower burner dysentery-vomit-uterine bleed
  • clears heat & generates flesh – topically for burns/carbuncles

Dosage: 6 – 15g.

Also Used For:

Orally, Di Yu / Bloodroot is used as an emetic, cathartic, antispasmodic, and expectorant.  

Topically, Di Yu / Bloodroot is used as an irritant and debriding agent.

Dentistry, Di Yu / Bloodroot is used topically to reduce plaque.

Also in Traditional Medicine,Di Yu / Bloodroot is used for bronchitis, asthma, croup, laryngitis, pharyngitis, deficient capillary circulation, nasal polyps, rheumatism, warts, cancer (Fell technique), dental analgesic, fever, and as a general tonic.

 

 

 

 

 
 
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