Does the thorny horn bud have any effect in treating nosebleeds?

Many people are unfamiliar with the name of prickly horn bud, but most of them recognize this plant. It can be seen everywhere in the fields in spring. It gets this name because its neck and leaves are covered with thorns. Its scientific name is thistle. Farmers working in the fields often have their hands cut by branches or sharp objects, and the bleeding does not stop. They will pick a few leaves of thistle, rub them to extract the juice, and cover the wound, which will quickly stop the bleeding, relieve pain and swelling. What are the effects of prickly horn bud? Can it cure nosebleeds?

Thistle can be used as medicine, but with different effects. The doctor said: Great thistle can cure carbuncles, while small thistle can break up blood. The seedlings are collected in April and the roots are collected in September. Page 113 of Compendium of Materia Medica states: If a knife wound does not stop bleeding, mash some small thistle seedlings and apply them to the wound to stop the bleeding. When I was a child, I went to the fields to cut grass and saw people who had cut their fingers or nosebleeds rubbing their fingers with small thistle seedlings to stop the bleeding. The effect was very good. In the past, when people had no vegetables to eat in the spring, they would often pick some small prickly ash shoots, rub them with salt and eat them with rice. Before the "Cultural Revolution", people ate "Recalling the bitter past and thinking of the sweet future" and pulled out prickly ash buds to fill the pot. Usually, some people grind it raw and drink the juice to relieve restlessness and heat.

Thistle is distributed in most parts of China, and is also found in Central and Eastern Europe, eastern Russia, Japan, North Korea and other regions. It grows in areas with an altitude of 140 to 2,650 meters, and generally grows wild in wastelands, grasslands, hillside forests, roadsides, bushes, fields, forest edges and streams. It is cultivated artificially for medicinal purposes.

Medical Value

【 Nature and flavor and meridians 】 Sweet, bitter, and cool. It enters the heart and liver meridians.

【 Function and indications 】 Cools blood and stops bleeding, removes blood stasis and reduces swelling. Used for epistaxis, hematemesis, hematuria, bloody stool, metrorrhagia, bleeding from trauma, carbuncles and sores.

[ Usage and Dosage ] 4.5 to 9 grams. For external use, take an appropriate amount of fresh product, mash it and apply it to the affected area.

Family classification : Asteraceae

Latin name : Herba Cirsii Setosi

Pharmacology (toxicology) : Rats were given 80g/kg of the decoction by oral gavage every day for 2 weeks, and there was no obvious toxicity. No special pathological changes were found in liver and kidney tissue examinations.

Ecological environment : Grown on hillsides, river banks, wastelands and fields.

【Storage】Place in ventilated and dry place.

[Source] It is the above-ground part of Cephalanthus segetum (Bunge) Kitam., a plant of the Asteraceae family.

[Harvesting and processing] Harvested when the flowers bloom in summer and autumn, removed impurities, and dried in the sun.

Flavor

Sweet; slightly bitter; cool in nature

Dosage

For internal use : decoction, 5-10g; fresh product can be used 30-60g, or mashed into juice. For external use: take appropriate amount and mash it for application.

Contraindications

People with spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness but no blood stasis should not take it.

1. “Pinhui Jingyao”: Avoid touching iron objects.

2. "Bencao Jingshu": It is not good for diarrhea caused by weak stomach, extreme blood deficiency, weak spleen and stomach and loss of appetite.

3. "Bencao Huiyan": It is not good for qi deficiency.

Clinical Application

1. To treat heart heat, vomiting blood and dry mouth : 2 cups of raw lotus root juice, raw burdock juice, raw rehmannia juice, and small thistle root juice, each with 1 spoon of white honey. Mix the above medicines together, stir until evenly mixed, and sip it slowly at any time. (Taiping Shenghui Fang)

2. To treat bleeding on the tongue and epistaxis : Take a handful of thistle, grind and squeeze out the juice, and mix it with half a cup of wine to drink. If there is no raw juice, just grind the dry juice into powder and add 15 grams of it with cold water. (Qingxin San from Shengji Zonglu)

3. Treatment of metrorrhagia : Grind one cup of juice of stems and leaves of thistle (wash and cut), add one cup of Rehmannia root juice and 25 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, boil until reduced by half, and drink while warm. (Prescriptions for Emergencies Worth a Thousand Gold Pieces)

4. Treatment of continuous bleeding after miscarriage : 250 grams each of roots and leaves of thistle (crushed) and motherwort (remove the roots and chop). Use three bowls of water to boil the two ingredients until they are well-cooked. Remove the residue and reduce the amount to one bowl of water. Boil the ingredients in a copper vessel until one cup remains. Divide the ingredients into two doses and take them all within a day. (Small Thistle Drink from Shengji Zonglu)

6. To treat continuous bleeding after miscarriage during pregnancy : 5 liang each of roots and leaves of thistle (crushed) and motherwort (remove the rhizomes and chop into pieces). Use three bowls of water to cook the two ingredients until they are well cooked. Remove the residue and reduce it to one large bowl. Boil the medicine in a copper vessel until it becomes one cup. Divide it into two doses and take them all within a day. (Shengji Zonglu)