Hedgedog Skin

Traditional Use

Primary Actions

• Transforms stasis and stops pain - Ci Wei Pi is used for chronic stomach pain, vomiting with long-standing obstruction, and painful conditions where blood stasis and local weakness overlap.
• Astrings and stops bleeding - traditional use includes hemorrhoidal bleeding, intestinal bleeding, and other lower-tract bleeding where a contracting animal medicine is desired.
• Secures leakage and reduces prolapse - the herb appears in older treatment logic for hemorrhoids, anal prolapse, spermatorrhea, and enuresis.
• Serves as a niche animal medicine rather than a routine tonic - most use is targeted, formula-specific, and based on older local traditions.

Secondary Actions

• Ci Wei Pi is better understood as an astringing, bleeding-stopping animal material than as a general deficiency tonic.
• Because it is an animal-derived medicine with narrower modern use, the traditional profile should be documented carefully without overstating contemporary evidence.

Classic Formulas

• Wei Pi San-type hemorrhoid powders - traditional use for intestinal bleeding and hemorrhoidal leakage.
• Ci Wei Pi with Jiu Xiang Chong or Xiang Fu - old gastric-pain strategy when qi stagnation and blood stasis are intertwined.
• Leakage-securing combinations with Yi Zhi Ren, Jin Ying Zi, or Long Gu - traditional pattern for enuresis or spermatorrhea.

Classical References

• The official modern Chinese reference platform describes Ci Wei Pi as bitter, astringent, and neutral, entering the Stomach, Large Intestine, and Kidney to transform stasis, stop pain, astringe bleeding, and reduce leakage.
• Classical sources record its use in hemorrhoids, prolapse, abdominal pain, vomiting, spermatorrhea, and urinary leakage, showing the old logic of combining astringency with stasis-transforming action.