Herb
Cockscomb (Ji guan hua)
鸡冠花ji guan hua
1 sourceFlos Celosiae Cristatae
Cools the blood and staunches bleeding such as bloody dysentery, flooding, vaginal discharge and bleeding hemorrhoids.
Source
Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu)卷十五·草部·隰草类上·鸡冠·子·主治（藏器）
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 & botanical facts (public-domain reference facts; no proprietary modern source).
Traditional functions
Classical source text (Chinese) — English summary above.
传统中医记载：（子）止肠风泻血，赤白痢（陈藏器）；崩中带下，入药炒用（大明）；（花）痔漏下血，赤白下痢，崩中赤白带下（时珍）。
Nature, flavor & meridians
Nature & flavor: 甘，凉，无毒。
Citations
- Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷十五·草部·隰草类上·鸡冠（宋《嘉祐》）Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its classification.
- Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷十五·草部·隰草类上·鸡冠·子·气味Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its nature & flavor.
- Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷十五·草部·隰草类上·鸡冠·子·主治（藏器）Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.
- Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷十五·草部·隰草类上·鸡冠·子·主治（大明）Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.
- Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷十五·草部·隰草类上·鸡冠·花·主治（时珍）Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.
- Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷十五·草部·隰草类上·鸡冠·子·气味Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its safety notes.