ACUPUNTURA Y MASAJE TERAPÉUTICO

Da Ji - Large thistle, Japanese cirsium, Japanese thistle (Cirsii japonici Herba seu Radix)

Properties: Cool, Sweet. Channels: Liver, Spleen, Heart

Action and indication: Cools blood, stops bleeding: coughing or vomiting blood, epistaxis, uterine, hematuria.  (Shi Hui San)     

Swellings, boils, int abcesses.

Contraindicated: Spleen and Stomach deficiency Cold  

Xiao Ji - small thistle, field thistle, cephalanoplos (Cirsii Herba: sim to Da ji, weaker, primarily for bloody urine. (Xiao Ji Yin Zi)

Dose: 4.5-15 g; 60 g fresh