Herb

Pu shan (a cattail fan)

蒲扇pu shan

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Recorded in Bencao Gangmu (the worn fan, burnt to ash and dusted on the body) to check sweating, the more worn the better, and (taken in wine) for night sweats, flooding and incessant menstruation.

Source

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu)卷三十八·器物类·蒲扇·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：败蒲扇灰和粉粉身止汗，弥败者佳；古载烧灰酒服止盗汗及妇人血崩、月水不断。

Citations

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷三十八·器物类·蒲扇·释名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·蒲扇·主治Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.