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Carbonized petiole of
windmill palm (Zonglutan)
Pharmaceutical Name: Petiolus Trachycarpi
carbonisatus
Botanical Name: Trachycarpus fortunei H.
wendl.
Common Name: Carbonized palm fiber, Carbonized
petiole of windmill palm
Source of Earliest Record: Bencao Shiyi
Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical
Preparations: The palm fiber is gathered in
the period of the Winter Solstice (twenty-second
solar term), and then it is carbonized.
Properties & Taste: Bitter, astringent
and neutral
Meridians: Lung, liver and large intestine
Functions: To stop bleeding
Indications & Combinations:
1. Hemorrhages due to extravasation of blood
by heat manifested as cough with blood, vomiting
with blood, epistaxis, bloody stool and uterine
bleeding. Carbonized petiole of windmill palm
(Zonglutan) is used with Imperata rhizome
(Baimaogen), Japanese thistle (Daji), Small
thistle (Xiaoji) and Capejasmine (Zhizi) in
the formula Shihui San.
2. Hemorrhages due to deficiency of yang
qi leading to failure of the spleen to control
blood manifested as uterine bleeding or bloody
stool. Carbonized petiole of windmill palm
(Zonglutan) is used with Astragalus root (Huangqi),
Ginseng (Renshen) and White atractylodes (Baizhu).
Dosage: 3-10 g |
