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Huaijiao Wan

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Huaijiao Wan (Chinese: 槐角丸) is a blackish-brown pill used in Traditional Chinese medicine to "arrest bleeding by reducing heat from blood in treating hematochezia". It tastes bitter and astringent. It is used where there is "hematochezia, hemorrhoidal swelling and pain". The binding agent is a water-honey solution. Each pill weighs about 6 grams.

Chinese classic herbal formula

Name Chinese (S) Grams
Fructus Sophorae (stir-baked) 槐角 (炒) 200
Radix Sanguisorbae (carbonized) 地榆 (炭) 100
Radix Scutellariae 黄芩 100
Fructus Aurantii (stir-baked) 枳壳 (炒) 100
Radix Angelicae Sinensis 当归 100
Radix Saposhnikoviae 防风 100

See also

References

  1. State Pharmacopoeia Commission of the PRC (2005). "Pharmacopoeia of The People's Republic of China (Volume I)". Chemical Industry Press. ISBN 7-117-06982-1.
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