Siwu Tang

仙授理傷續斷祕方

-- Severe injury, with blood stasis in the intestines. (Xian Shou Li Shang Xu Duan Mi Fang, Secret Prescriptions of Traumatology and Bone-Setting Handed Down by an Immortal)

Angelica sinensis (remove the reed, wine-soak, and fry), Chuan Xiong (Ligusticum), white peony root, prepared Rehmannia (sprinkle with wine and steam, each in equal parts). Grind the above into coarse powder. Take 3 qian each time, with 1.5 cups of water, decoct until reduced to 8 fen, remove the dregs, take warm on an empty stomach before meals. If there is restless fetal movement during pregnancy and continuous bleeding, add ten mugwort leaves and one piece of donkey-hide gelatin, and decoct together as above. Or if the blood organ is deficient and cold, and there is excessive bleeding during flooding and spotting, also add gelatin and mugwort and decoct. (Tai Ping Hui Min He Ji Ju Fang, Prescriptions of the Taiping Era Bureau for the Benefit of the People)

Grind the above into a coarse powder. Take 3 qian (15 g) per dose, with 1.5 cups of water, decoct until reduced to eight-tenths, remove the dregs, and take warm on an empty stomach before meals (modern usage: use the above dosage as a Decoction, decoct in water; or add pork bone and stew in an electric pot).

湯劑

Tonify Blood and regulate blood.

Pattern of depleted and stagnant nutrient-blood, or pattern of depletion and impairment of the Chong and Ren vessels. Dizziness and blurred vision, palpitations, tinnitus, lusterless lips and nails, irregular menstruation in women, scanty flow or amenorrhea, umbilical and abdominal pain, pale red tongue, and wiry-thin or thin-choppy pulse.

Postpartum beriberi: add Cang Zhu: 10, Mu Gua: 10, Yi Yi Ren: 20. -- Women with strong sexual desire: add Zhi Mu: 10, Huang Bai: 10. -- Systemic lupus erythematosus, pattern of yin deficiency with fire, with symptoms of fever, night sweats, dry mouth and throat, emaciation, dry stool, red tongue proper, and thin rapid pulse: add Zhi Mu: 10, Huang Bai: 10, Xuan Shen: 10. -- Systemic lupus erythematosus, women with bone-steaming tidal fever and night sweats: add Di Gu Pi: 10, Mu Dan Pi: 10.

Although this formula is a formula for treating anemia, it is not suitable for those with weak gastrointestinal function who are prone to diarrhea. It is also not appropriate for yin deficiency with fever, or for patterns of profuse uterine bleeding and qi desertion.