Cirsium setosum, Xiao Ji ๅฐ่
Field Thistle, Small Thistle
Xiao Ji (TCM)
Cirsium setosum
Kops, J., Flora Batava (1911)
Botanical name:
Cirsium setosum (syn. C. arvense, Cephalanoplos setosum), C. segetum, C. lineare, C. botryodes
Parts used:
Root
Temperature & Taste:
Cool, dry. Sweet
Classifications:
Uses:
1. Cools the Blood, Stops Bleeding:
-Coughing or Vomiting Blood, Blood in the Urine or Stool
-Uterine Bleeding
2. Clears Heat and Toxin, Reduce Abscess:
-Sores, Abscesses, Boils (topically and Internally)
3. Clears Liver Heat:
-Jaundice from Damp-Heat
-Hepatitis
-Hypertension
Dose:
Decoction: 9โ30 grams
Substitute:
1. Cirsium Da Ji
2. Sonchus brachyotus
Preparation:
Charred to increase its effect of stopping Bleeding.
Main Combinations:
1. Bleeding:
i. with Imperata Bai Mao Gen
ii. burning Urine with Blood in the Urine, with Rehmannia Sheng Di Huang, Gardenia Zhi Zi, Talcum (Hua Shi)
iii. fresh herb can be taken with fresh Lotus root for Blood-streaked sputum
2. Abscesses, with Dandelion (Pu Gong Ying)
Cautions:
Not used in Cold and Weakness of the Spleen and Stomach
