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Decoction for Removing Blood Stasis
金匱要略湯劑
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Source
金匱要略
Original text
-- The master said: For postpartum abdominal pain, the rule is to use Zhishi Shaoyao Powder. If it does not heal, this is because there is dry blood lodged below the umbilicus in the abdomen; Xia Yuxue Tang should govern it. It also treats inhibited menstruation. (Jin Gui Yao Lue (Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet))
Composition
Rhubarb 2 liang; Peach Kernel 20 pieces; Ground Beetle 20 pieces (roasted, feet removed). For the above three ingredients, grind to powder, refine with honey and form into four pills. Use one sheng of wine to decoct one pill, take eight ge, and take it in one dose. Fresh blood descends like pig's liver.
Preparation
For the above three ingredients, grind to powder, refine with honey and form into four pills. Use one sheng of wine to decoct one pill, take eight ge, and take it in one dose. Fresh blood descends like pig's liver.
Form
湯劑
Function
Dispel blood stasis and drain heat.
Traditional indications
Women with amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, cervical cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, presenting with lower abdominal pain that is aggravated by pressure, a fixed and unmoving pain site, dark red tongue proper, and a forceful pulse.
Modifications
If there is Yang deficiency, with a pale, white, swollen, enlarged tongue with teeth marks and a wet, slippery coating: add Prepared Aconite: 10, Dried Ginger: 10.
-- For diseases such as uterine fibroids, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, and fallopian tube obstruction, accompanied by leukorrhea, fullness and pain in the lower abdomen, and unsmooth menstruation (scanty menstruation, purple color with clots), etc.: add Trichosanthes Root: 15, White Peony: 10, Cinnamon Twig: 10.