Pharmaceutical Name:

Herba Cirsii Segeti

Botanical Name:

Cirsium Segetum Bge.

Common Name:

Small Thistle

Source of Earliest Record:

Mingyi Bielu        

Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations:

The aerial parts of the plant and its rhizome are harvested in summer when the thistle is flowering. Then they are cleaned, dried in the sun and cut into pieces.

Properties and Taste:

Sweet and cool

Meridians:

Heart and liver

Functions:

To cool blood and stop bleeding
To promote urination

Indications and Combinations:

1.     Hemorrhages due to extravasation of blood by heat.
*Use with Imperata rhizome (Baimaogen), Cattail pollen (Puhuang) and Biota tops (Cebaiye).

2.     Bloody urine, painful urination.
*Use with Lotus node (Oujie), Talc (Huashi) and Clematis stem (Mutong) in the formula Xiaoji Yinzi.

Dosage:

10-15 g (30-60 for fresh herb)