Red Halloysite Classic Formulas … Natural Herb Library

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Astringes the intestines and stops chronic diarrhea ... Chi Shi Zhi is a classic mineral for long-standing slippery leakage, especially chronic diarrhea or dysentery from deficiency and cold weakness rather than acute damp-heat attack.
Astringes to stop bleeding ... it is used for blood in the stool, uterine bleeding, and other lower-burner bleeding patterns where containment has failed.
Promotes healing of sores and generates flesh ... external use includes chronic ulcers, damp lesions, and wounds that need drying, protection, and closure.

Chi Shi Zhi Yu Yu Liang Tang ... defining formula for unremitting diarrhea after mistaken treatment or exhausted intestinal qi.
Tao Hua Tang ... classic use for chronic deficiency-cold dysenteric diarrhea with persistent leakage.
Chi Shi Zhi with Hai Piao Xiao or other astringent hemostatics ... later strategy for lower-burner bleeding and persistent discharge.

Traditional materia medica describes Chi Shi Zhi as sweet, sour, astringent, and warm, entering the Stomach and Large Intestine to secure leakage, stop bleeding, and heal sores.
Its clinical scope is narrow but important ... chronic deficiency-type leakage, not acute pathogen excess.