Pharmaceutical Name:

Flos Sophorae

Botanical Name:

Sophora japonica L.

Common Name:

Sophora flower
Pagoda Tree flower

Source of Earliest Record:

Rihuazi Bencao

Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations:

The flower buds are gathered in June or July and dried in the sun.

Properties and Taste:

Bitter and slightly cold

Meridians:

Liver and large intestine

Functions:

To cool blood and stop bleeding

Indications and Combinations:

Hemorrhages due to extravasation of blood by heat:

a)       Dysentery and bleeding due to hemorrhoids
*Use with Biota tops (Cebaiye), Imperata rhizome (Baimaogen) and Agrimony (Xianhecao).

b)       Damp-heat accumulated in the intestines manifested as diarrhea or dysentery.
*Use with Scutellaria root (Huangqin) and Pueraria root (Gegen); if the resulting manifestation is tenesmus, Coptis root (Huanglian) is used with Costus root (Muxiang) in the formula Xiang Lian Wan.  

Dosage:

10-15 g