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Red Adzuki Bean and Angelica Powder

金匱要略散劑
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Source
金匱要略
Original text
-- Blood in the stool, with blood first and then stool—this is near bleeding; Chixiaodou Danggui San governs. (Jin Gui Yao Lue (Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet))
Composition
Chixiaodou 3 sheng (soaked, allowed to sprout, sun-dried); Danggui 3 liang. The above two ingredients are pounded into a powder; take one square-inch spoonful with jiangshui (rice water), three times daily. (Shang Han Za Bing Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Diseases))
Preparation
Pound into powder. Each dose one square-inch spoon (3 g), swallowed with sour rice water, 3 times daily. It may also be prepared as a decoction and taken warm; the dosage should be proportionally reduced according to the original formula.
Form
散劑
Function
Expel pus and blood, eliminate Damp-heat.
Traditional indications
Damp-heat pouring downward, passing blood in the stool, in cases where blood precedes stool.