Bletilla Tuber Extract

Bletilla Tuber Extract
Product Name: Bletilla Tuber Extract
Botanical Name: Bletilla striata (Thunb.) Reichb.f. 
Part Used: Tuber
Specification: 4:1
Appearance: Tan Fine Powder


What is Bletilla Tuber Extract?
The herb is bitter, sweet and puckery in flavour, slightly cold in nature, and acts on the lung, liver and stomach channels. Being sticky, puckery and acting on blood; having strong effect of stopping bleeding by astringency, the herb is indicated for hemoptysis, haematemesis, traumatic bleeding and other kinds of bleeding caused by hurt in the lung and stomach. With its astringing nature, it can also be used to heal wounds and promote tissue regeneration.

Where will Bletilla Tuber Extract be used to?
1. The herb is often used in combination with cuttle bone powder, such as Wuji Powder for infusion with hot boiled water, to treat haematenesis and tomachache; and with dondey-hide gelatin, dried rehmannia root, biota tops, pyrrosia leaf and other herbs for cooling blood to stop bleeding, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, to treat cough with phlegm and blood due to pulmonary tuberculosis. To treat traumatic bleeding, the herb can be ground into powder for external application.

2. To treat diabrotic skin sore without healing for a long time, the herb can be ground into powder, used in combination with frankincense, myrrh, calcined dragon's bone, dragon's blood and other drugs for external application to astringe sore and promote healing. To treat scald, burn and chapped skin, the herb can be ground into powder and mixed with oil for external application.

Application of Bletilla Tuber Extract
Stopping bleeding by astringency, 
relieving swelling and promoting tissue regeneration