Sources: The drug is the dried or fresh whole herb of Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. (Family Euphorbiaceae), growing originally in Maxico and reed-America, and cultivated all over China.
Constituents:Whole herb contains phytosterol, amyrin acetate, cycloartenol, stigmasterol, germanicol acetate, etc.
Actions and Indications: Whole herb is used as menstuation regulator, hemostatic and antionconic, to set a fracture, for the treatment of menorrhagia, traumatic injury, fracture and traumatic bleeding.
Yizhijian; Ophioglossi Pedunculosi Herba
Sources: The drug is the dried or fresh whole herb of Ophioglossum pedunculosum Desv. (Family Ophio glossaceae), growing in forests or scrubs on mountain slopes, and distributed in Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian, Tai-wan Guangdong, Hainan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Yunnan of China.
Actions and Indications: Whole herb is used to clear away heat and remove blood stasis, as antitoxin, blood activator, antirheumatic, antioncotic and analgesic, for the treatment of snake bile and dog bite, carbuncles, scabies, traumatic injury, fracture, stomach ache due to sun stroke, cough due to heat, infantile pneumonitis and convulsion malnutrition due to improper feeding, cough, acute keratitis, cordeal nebula.
Sources: The drug is the dried or fresh branch and leaf of Euonymus przewalskii Maxim. (Family Ce lestraceae), growing in scrub, on hillside, and distributed in Hebei, Shanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Si chuan and Tibet of China.
Actions and Indications: Branch and leaf are used as blood-activator and antipyretic, to remove blood stasis and improve eyesight, for the treatment of abdominal pain by postpartum blood clots, amenorrhea, arthrodynia, carbuncles, blood stasis caused by traumatic injury, etc.
