Educational information, not medical advice — ask your doctor or midwife.
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Shi Jian Chuan is a Chinese herb. It is the dried whole plant of Salvia chinensis, a small plant in the mint family. Herbalists use it to move blood, ease swelling, and calm pain.
It is a single herb, not a set formula. You will nearly always meet it inside a mix of other herbs. Such mixes are used beside cancer care, and for liver trouble, period pain, and sore joints.
Here is the short verdict. Its place in Chinese herb use is long and clear, but human trial proof is thin. Long use in a tradition is not proof that a herb works.
The honest answer: no one has shown how it works in people.
In Chinese medicine terms, it is said to move stuck blood and clear damp heat. Damp heat is an old word for heavy, hot, sticky symptoms. These are ideas from an old system, not lab facts.
Lab tests show that some of its plant acids slow cell growth in a dish. A few mouse studies point the same way. Dish and mouse work does not tell you what a tea will do in a person.
Most often it is sold as dried cut herb. This is boiled to make a decoction, which is a strong tea made by boiling.
It also comes as instant granules and as a liquid extract. Some Chinese ready-made pills list it on the label.
It is rare on shop shelves in the West. When you do find it, it is usually part of a blend.
Shi Jian Chuan shows up in Chinese herb books from the Ming era on. Folk healers in east China used it before that.
Old texts list it for lumps and swellings, for jaundice, and for pain that will not shift. Jaundice means yellow skin and eyes.
From the 1970s, Chinese hospitals began adding it to herb mixes given beside cancer care.
See a doctor straight away if you bruise easily, bleed from the gums or nose, see blood in your urine or stool, or pass black tarry stools. Also see a doctor if your skin or eyes turn yellow, if you get a rash or swelling of the face or throat, or if you feel sick and tired for more than a few days. Stop the herb first, then get checked. Any lump, ongoing pain or period change that lasts more than a few weeks needs proper medical testing, not a herb.
Evidence grades and traditional-use labels are explained in our methodology. Nothing here is medical advice.
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