The efficacy and function of blood clotting

Dragon's Blood Jelly, also known as Dragon's Blood Jelly Flower, Qilin's Blood Jelly, and Blood Power. It is an epoxy resin that is exuded from the fruit of the palm plant Euphorbia cerasifera. In Indonesia, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and other places, there is a perennial vine that usually coils around other trees and flowers. The leaves are feathery with three vertical "veins" on them; the fruit is spherical with bright yellow scales on the surface. If you break it or cut it, blood-like epoxy resin will flow out and solidify into blood clots after drying. It is a very precious traditional Chinese medicine, called "dragon blood" or "kylin blood". It is also used as a dye or spice in folk customs.

Characteristic identification: Dragon's Blood is divided into two categories: Yuanzhuang Dragon's Blood.

1. Yuanzhuang Dragon Blood Jie: in irregular small pieces. The surface is dark purple or covered with dark red smoke. The texture is hard and brittle or crisp, easy to break, the color of the crushed surface is consistent with the surface color, and it has a slight glossiness. Due to different quality, it often has different numbers of head inflorescences, fruit and fish scale residues, no smell, and light taste.

It is best to choose one that contains less residue, is crispy, has a smooth cross-section and is red in color.

2. Models of Dragon's Blood: The products currently on the market include Pai Ku and Huang Guan brand, both of which are finished products that have undergone production and processing. The impurities such as flower heads, fruits and scales have been removed and made into fixed-shaped small pieces. The diameter is 6 to 8 cm, the bottom is flat and round, the top is sharp-angled and has longitudinal folds and grooves. The surface is dark red or black-red with a gold-stamped model number. It is hard and brittle, easy to break, with a slightly glossy broken surface and tiny pores, and is light brown. When ground into powder, it turns into a bright dark red color. No odor, light taste. It feels gritty when chewed.

The color is black, white and red like iron, the cross section is smooth, and the powder should be bright red like blood.

Main ingredients: dragon's blood red pigment, benzoic acid, etc.

Function and efficacy: Promote blood circulation and relieve pain, promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis and remove toxins. Clinical experiments have confirmed that it can significantly reduce the time it takes for blood to thicken again in rabbits. It has an inhibitory effect on various types of skin tinea.

Preparation of Chinese medicine: Grind into ultrafine powder and use raw. Poria cocos effects: sweet, salty and neutral. Meridians: Deeply penetrate into the human heart and liver meridians. Function: Promote blood circulation and relieve pain, disperse blood stasis and promote new blood circulation; external application can promote blood circulation and remove toxins. Indications: Traumatic injuries, dull pain caused by blood stasis, sudden pain in the flesh, bleeding from wounds, and ulcers that do not heal.

Clinical application: It is mainly used for patients with close pain or bleeding due to bruises. It is often combined with frankincense, myrrh, catechu, camphor, etc., and prescriptions such as Qilin Powder have the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing stasis and quickly reducing swelling.

Dragon's Blood is pungent and hot in nature, so it should be used with caution by those with yin deficiency and blood heat.

Dosage: Oral administration: 1~1.5g, usually in the form of pills or powder, not medicine. Appropriate external application.

Examples of prescriptions: Qilin Powder (ready-made medicine): contains dragon's blood, safflower, catechu, cinnabar, frankincense, myrrh, and dragon's blood. Take 0.21~0.9g each time, 1~3 times a day, swallow with warm water or warm rice wine, or apply externally with pure grain wine to the injured area.

Note: 1. Dragon's blood dissolves in alcohol but not in water.

2. The traditional identification method is to grind the dragon's blood into fine powder, sprinkle it on paper, and bake it over a low fire without burning the paper. The dragon's blood will turn black and red after melting, and will still appear red when viewed through light. The ones that have no resin smell when ignited by fire and have pungent smoke are of good quality. On the contrary, it is inferior or mixed with other epoxy resins.