LUPUS FORMULA
Lang Chuang Fang

 

‘Lupus Formula’
Source: Experiential formula 

Keywords
Systemic lupus erythematosis SLE

Ingredients
Prunus persica (Tao Ren, peach seed)
Carthamus tinctorius (Hong Hua, carthamus)
Sparganii stoloniferum (San Leng, burreed tuber)
Curcuma ezhu (e Zhu, curcuma)
Paeonia rubra (Chi Shao, red peony)
Ligusticum walichii (Chuan Xiong, ligusticum)
Rehmannia glutinosa (Sheng Di, raw rehmannia)
angelica sinensis (Dang Gui, Chinese angelica)

Major therapeutic action
activates Blood, nourishes yin and Blood.

 Biomedical action
Improves cellular immunity, anti-inflammatory.

Indications
*  Blood stasis, yin deficiency.
*  With the appropriate key symptoms, this formula can be used to treat biomedical conditions such as systemic lupus erythematosis (SLE).

Key symptoms for use
*  lesions of joints, skin, kidney, brain, serosa, lung, heart and gastrointestinal tract, etc. caused by SLE

Cautions and contraindications
None noted.
None noted. 		Dosage
The typical dose is three grams twice daily, before meals. In severe cases or the early stages of treatment (the first two weeks), a 50-100% increase in dose may be used, then reduced as the treatment takes effect.