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Attributes and Domain
sweet, acrid, bitter, warm; Liver, Heart and Spleen
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Major therapeutic action
Tonifies and invigorates Blood, regulates menstruation, moistens the Intestine to move the stool.
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Combinations
* With Jin Ling Zi San for abdominal pain during menstruation
* With Yi Mu Cao, Chuan Xiong and Tao Ren/Hong Hua for postpartum abdominal pain
* With Nine Herb Decoction for Wind-cold Damp bi. |
Indications
* Blood deficiency, Blood stasis, Dryness in the Intestine.
* Deficient Blood patterns with sallow complexion, palpitations, vertigo, blurred vision and ‘floaters’.
* The ‘woman’s herb’, for gynaecological problems such as amenorrhoea, irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia, postpartum abdominal pain and dysmenorrhoea.
* For chronic arthritis and bi pain with deficient Blood.
* Traumatic injuries, swelling, carbuncles.
* Constipation.
* Acute cerebral thrombosis, thromboangiitis obliterans, arrhythmia, cerebral arteriosclerosis, bronchial
asthma, bronchitis, sudden loss of hearing, infantile paralysis, viral pneumonia, emphysema, chronic hepatitis, hepatocirrhosis, costal chondritis. |
Cautions and contraindications
None noted.
None noted. |