Chinese Pyrola Herb

Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Anhui.

Dried whole herb, stem is purple-brown, slightly with ridges and wrinkles, without hairs, slightly lustrous. Leaf stem is long, flat and indented in the center, two edges are membranous, often curved, without hairs. Leaf is wrinkled, slightly broken, upper surface is purple-red, few are brownish-green, smooth, lower surface is purple-red, without hairs, leaf vein is slightly raised; paper-like texture, easily broken. Sometimes has obvious flower stem, with numerous small flowers or flat spherical brown capsules. faint odor, slightly bitter taste.

Superior medicinal material is purple-red or purple-brown, without foreign matter.

Sweet, bitter; warm

Supplements deficiency, promotes kidney, dispels wind, eliminates dampness, invigorates blood, adjusts menstruation, supplements kidney, strengthens bone, spots cough, stops bleeding. Apply to kidney deficiency and waist pain, wind-damp impediment, flaccidity of extremities, lingering cough, hematemesis, non-traumatic hemorrhage, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, hemorrhage caused by trauma.