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title: "Chi Shi Zhi"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/438/chi-shi-zhi"
---

 ![chi shi zhi, halloysitum rubrum.jpg](/u/chi-shi-zhi-halloysitum-rubrum-JztT7Q.jpg) 

# Chi Shi Zhi

### Halloysitum Rubrum

_sour, sweet, astringent, warm_

### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Stabilize and Bind**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Disorders of the gastrointestinal tract
 - Chronic diarrhea
 - Dysentery
- Blood and mucus
 - Hemafecia
- Menometrorrhagia
- Prolapsed rectum
- Ulcers
- Weeping sores

Chi Shi Zhi binds up the intestines and stops diarrhea when the
pathomechanism is a cold deficiency pattern (yang deficiency).
There might be mucus in the stool and typically the stool has
undigested food from hypochlorhydria (low stomach acid) and
poor pancreatic enzyme production (spleen digestive functions).
Also used for blood in the stool when caused by spleen not
controlling the blood or for excess uterine bleeding from the
same pattern.

Chi Shi Zhi be used topically to stop bleeding when there is a
trauma and has wound healing qualities.

**Channels:** spleen, stomach, large intestine

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Pancreas exocrine function
 - Enzyme production
- Chronic diarrhea
- Rectal prolapse
- Leukorrhea
- Dysentery
- Hemafecia
- Skin ulcers
- Indigestion
- Gastric ulcer
- Adsorbent (removes toxins in the gastrointestinal tract)

**Formulas:**
- Tao Hua Tang

**Contraindications:** use with caution on pregnant patients,
do not use when there is diarrhea from heat disorders or when
there is damp-heat in the lower jiao

**Zoo Image:** Dracula’s camel has been whipped and is bleeding into a goblet
while it has diarrhea

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