Herb

Bai chuan ru (old-boat caulking)

败船茹bai chuan ru
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Recorded in Bencao Gangmu for women's flooding, blood ejection and incessant bloody dysentery, and (the ash applied) for incised wounds, like ox-gall lime.

Source

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu)卷三十八·器物类·败船茹·主治

References
  • functions_en self-translated from 本草纲目 traditional_functions (public domain; the Chinese tf carries verbatim excerpt_hash citations). No modern work consulted.
  • WHO IST-TCM terminology-aligned for the English rendering.
  • public pharmacopoeia & physical facts (public-domain reference facts; no proprietary modern source).
Traditional functions

Classical source text (Chinese) — English summary above.

传统中医记载：疗妇人崩中、吐血、痢血不止；古载治金疮刮败船茹灰傅之，功同牛胆石灰。

Citations
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷三十八·器物类·败船茹·条名Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its classification.
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷三十八·器物类·败船茹·主治Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.