☯ TCM Properties
Cools the Blood, stops bleeding, removes toxicity, invigorates the Blood and astringes wounds
Traditional Chinese Uses
Wa Song is the whole succulent herb of Orostachys fimbriata (Crassulaceae), a small stonecrop that colonises old tiled roofs. Sour and bitter with a neutral (traditionally cool) nature, it cools the Blood and stops bleeding, resolves toxicity, and astringes to close wounds, entering the Liver, Lung and Spleen channels. Classic indications are Blood-Heat bleeding — bloody dysentery, bleeding hemorrhoids, blood in the stool and uterine bleeding — and chronic non-healing sores and ulcers, for which the fresh herb is crushed and applied topically. It is also used for damp-heat and liver-heat complaints.
It is decocted or expressed for juice, with larger amounts used externally on the skin.
Botanical Description
Wa Song is Orostachys fimbriata, a small biennial succulent of the stonecrop family Crassulaceae often colonising the tiles of old roofs and giving rise to its English name 'rooftop pine' or 'dunce cap'. In its first year the plant forms a dense, ground-hugging rosette of fleshy, glaucous, lance-shaped to spathulate leaves with finely fringed cartilaginous tips. In its second year the rosette elongates into a conspicuous tapering spike 10 to 30 centimetres tall, densely clothed in narrower leaves and terminating in a slender, conical or pagoda-shaped raceme of small, five-petalled, whitish to pinkish flowers; the plant flowers once, sets seed, and dies. The species favours dry, exposed sites: rock crevices, sandy slopes, walls, and roof tiles across northern and central China, Korea, and Japan.
Dosage
| Form | Amount | Frequency | Duration | Population | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| decoction | 6-15g | Daily | — | — | — |
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