☯ TCM Properties
Clears Summerheat, harmonizes the Stomach, invigorates the Blood, stops bleeding, and removes toxicity
Traditional Chinese Uses
Qiang Wei Hua is the dried flower of Rosa multiflora (Rosaceae), a bitter, astringent, cool herb classed with the Heat-clearing medicinals. Its aromatic, light-clearing nature is used to clear Summerheat and harmonize the Stomach in summer damp-heat with fever, thirst, poor appetite, nausea, and irritability. It also drains Damp-Heat, appearing in traditional treatment of damp-heat dysentery and diarrhea, and, entering the Stomach and Large Intestine channels, in mouth sores and thirst. Its cooling, blood-moving and toxin-resolving actions extend to sores, boils, and minor bleeding. Typically taken as a light infusion or brief decoction of a few grams, often paired with other gentle summerheat herbs. As a mild cooling flower it is generally well tolerated but is unsuited to Cold-Deficiency of the digestion.
Western Herbalism Properties
Botanical Description
Qiang Wei Hua is the dried flower of Rosa multiflora Thunb. (Rosaceae), the multiflora or rambler rose, a vigorous arching deciduous shrub 2 to 5 m tall native to China, Korea, and Japan and widely naturalized elsewhere. Stems bear paired recurved prickles and pinnately compound leaves with five to nine serrate leaflets and fringed stipules. Numerous small fragrant white to pink flowers about 1.5 to 2 cm across appear in pyramidal panicles in late spring, followed by small red hips. The flowers are gathered just before opening and shade-dried. In traditional Chinese medicine the flower is bitter, astringent, and cool, entering the Stomach and Liver channels; it clears summerheat, harmonizes the stomach, stops bleeding, and is used for summerheat thirst, hematemesis, epistaxis, malaria, and chronic diarrhea.
Dosage
| Form | Amount | Frequency | Duration | Population | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| decoction | 6-15g | Daily | — | — | — |
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