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Uses:

1. Clears Heat:

-Fever, Irritability, Excess Sweating
-Restlessness, Irritation (Da Ming)
-Thirst due to Fever
-especially for ‘Summer-heat’; acute Heat disorders in Summer

2. Raises the Yang, Stops Leakage:

-Diarrhea from Spleen deficiency
-also used for Obesity

3. Stops Bleeding:

-Bleeding from the lower body from Heat
-Vomiting Blood
-abnormal Uterine Bleeding from Blood heat (Chinese Pharmacopoeia)
-the carbonised leaf is especially used for Bleeding, especially for Blood in the stool or Uterine Bleeding
-Fresh leaf can be used for Bleeding from the Lungs

4. Moves the Blood, Clears Stasis.

-traditionally also viewed as resolving Blood Stasis.
-“good for relieving abdominal pain due to blood distention” (Chen Cang Qi)
-“promotes dispersion of placenta after delivery” (Chen Cang Qi)
-Blood stasis following Birth and Blood Stasis from Trauma (Li Shi Zhen)

Main Combinations:

1. Summer-heat disorders:
i. Lotus leaf with … available in PRO version
ii. Lotus leaf with … available in PRO version
2. Bleeding from Heat, Lotus leaf with … available in PRO version
3. Obesity, Lotus leaf with … available in PRO version

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