☯ TCM Properties
Astringes leakage of Blood and stops bleeding
Traditional Chinese Uses
Zong Lu Pi (Petiolus/Fibra Trachycarpi) is the dried fibrous leaf-sheath of the windmill palm, Trachycarpus fortunei. Bitter, astringent and neutral, entering the Liver, Lung, Spleen and Large Intestine channels, it is an herb that stops bleeding through astringency. Almost always used charred (Zong Lu Tan), it strongly restrains and stabilizes the Blood, checking chronic and profuse bleeding, including excessive uterine bleeding and flooding (beng lou), hemoptysis, hematemesis, epistaxis, bloody stool and blood in the urine.
It is more binding than Ou Jie and is chosen when bleeding is not accompanied by active Heat or Blood Stasis. Because its astringency can trap pathogens, it is used only after any stasis has been resolved and is generally avoided when heat or stasis is still driving the bleeding. It is often combined with other charred hemostatics such as Ce Bai Ye or Xue Yu Tan, and is also applied to chronic diarrhea and leukorrhea.
Western Herbalism Properties
Botanical Description
Zong Lu Pi is the dried fibrous leaf-sheath bark of Trachycarpus fortunei (Arecaceae), the windmill palm, an evergreen palm 4–12 m tall native to central and southern China and widely cultivated. The slender, unbranched trunk is densely cloaked in a coarse brown matting of persistent fibrous leaf-base sheaths from which the medicine is taken. Leaves are clustered at the crown; petioles 50–100 cm long, often armed with marginal teeth, support large fan-shaped (palmate) blades 50–90 cm across divided nearly to the base into many narrow stiff segments. Inflorescences are large, much-branched panicles bearing many small yellow flowers, and the small reniform, blue-black drupes follow. The medicinal fibre is brown, tough and coarsely matted.
Dosage
| Form | Amount | Frequency | Duration | Population | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| decoction | 6-15g | Daily | — | — | — |
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