Rhubarb and Kansui Decoction

金匱要略

In women, the lower abdomen is full like a dun vessel, urination is slightly difficult but there is no thirst. If this occurs after childbirth, this is water and blood both bound in the blood chamber; Da Huang Gan Sui Tang governs it. (Jin Gui Yao Lue (Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet))

Rhubarb four liang, Gan Sui two liang, Ass-hide Gelatin two liang. For the above three ingredients, use three sheng of water, boil to reduce to one sheng, take in a single dose; the blood should then descend. (Shang Han Za Bing Lun)

Use three sheng of water, boil to reduce to one sheng, take in a single dose; the blood should then descend.

湯劑

Break Blood stasis, expel water pathogens, benefit yin and nourish blood; attack pathogens without injuring the upright.

Irregular menstruation; urinary retention in men and women with fullness and pain in the lower abdomen; strangury toxin deeply lodged, with unbearable fullness and pain in the lower abdomen in syphilitic strangury, and urine containing pus and blood. Abdominal distention, with internal obstruction by Blood stasis and internal retention of water qi, large and firm abdominal distention, angry protrusion of the Channels / Meridians, attacking pain in the flank and abdomen, difficult defecation, difficult urination, no thirst, and a dark tongue with white coating.