WH Acupuncture & Herbs Centre

Ten Charred Herbs Powder shi hui san 

[SOURCE]: Miraculous Book of Ten Kinds of Dosage Form

[INGREDIENTS]:  Japanese thistle,   Field thistle , Lotus leaf,  Biota tops,  Cogongrass rhizome,  Rubia root , Rhubarb , Capejasmine fruit , Palm bark , Moutan bark,

All the herbs listed above are to be used in same dosage.

[DIRECTIONS]: Parch all the herbs to be dark but the original character re­mained, and then grind them into powder. Take 9 grams each time with lotus root juice or radish juice combined with little amount of Chinese ink. All the above herbs can also be decocted in water for oral administration with the dosage modi­fied in proportion to the original formula.

[EFFECTS]: Cooling blood to stop bleeding.

[INDICATIONS]: Syndrome of bleeding due to blood-heat marked by hematemsis, epistaxis, hemoptysis, red tongue with yellow coating, taut, rapid or rolling, rapid pulse.

[ANALYSIS OF FORMULA]: It is a arresting bleeding formula used for emer­gency treatment of bleeding due to blood-heat. Japanese thistle, field thirtle, lotus leaf, biota tops and cogongrass rhizome are used to cool blood to stop bleeding. Palm bark has the effect of astringing to arrest bleeding. They are used together as principal herbs. Since the syndrome is caused by bleeding due to blood-heat and exuberance of qi and flaring of fire, then cooling blood to arrest bleeding, capejas­mine fruit is used to clear away heat and purge fire, rhubarb is taken to lead heat downward and get the result of qi-fire lowered and blood arrested. All the above herbs are assistant herbs. Moutan bark as adjuvant herb is combined with rhubarb to cool blood and resolve stasis so as to create the result of cooling blood to arrest bleeding without retaining stasis. All the herbs in the formula are parched to dark with the original character remained to increase the effect of astringing to arrest bleeding. Lotus juice or radish juice combined with prepared Chinese ink are taken to strengthen the effects of clearing away heat and cooling blood to arrest bleed­ing. The combination of all ingredients has the effects both of cooling blood to ar­rest bleeding and clearing away heat and purging fire to remove stasis. But this formula is contraindicated in hemorrhage due to deficiency-cold.