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活血止痛药 · Blood-moving

Flying Squirrel Faeces wǔ líng zhī · 五灵脂

Trogopterus xanthipes (Trogopteri Faeces)

Nature and flavour. Bitter, salty and warm; Liver system.

Classically described for moving blood to relieve pain and for transforming stasis while stopping bleeding. Recorded for cold-type pain in the chest and abdomen, for traumatic injury and swellings, and for bleeding attributed to stasis rather than to heat — the classical reasoning being that stasis itself can be the reason bleeding will not settle.

性味归经。苦、咸，温；归肝经。

传统记载用于活血止痛、化瘀止血；古籍用于心腹冷痛、跌打损伤肿痛，以及属于瘀阻而非血热所致的出血 —— 传统立论是瘀血不去则出血不止。

Classical category · no formulas, no dosages, no herb-drug combinations are given.
Safety. Read this first: the drug is dried animal faeces. That fact makes source control and hygiene a live concern rather than a footnote, and availability and legality vary between jurisdictions because some regulators restrict animal-derived drugs of this kind — this page makes no recommendation either way, and only records what classical sources say. Avoid in pregnancy. Patterns of blood deficiency without stasis are classically unsuitable. Listed as incompatible with ginseng (人参) in the 'nineteen incompatibilities'; whether that reflects a real interaction is not established.

先说明性质：这是干燥动物粪便。仅此一点就使来源与卫生成为现实问题而非附注；部分地区对此类动物源药材有限制，可获得性与合法性因地而异 —— 本页不作推荐，只记录古籍所载。孕妇慎用。血虚而无瘀滞者传统认为不宜。传统『十九畏』记载人参畏五灵脂，是否为真实相互作用未被证实。

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